"He's fascinating," says Writer/Director George Lucas. "Christopher plays it so you don't quite know if Dooku's disenchantment with the corruption in the Republic is valid -- because it is valid. It's all valid. He plays it like: is he really a villain or is he really just somebody who's gotten disenchanted and trying to make things right? He was Qui-Gon's master, and his feeling of loss at Qui-Gon and thinking about him is real. He's not just a monster that, say, Darth Maul was."

In addition to the screen presence Lee brings to the charismatic separatist character, he also brings with him decades of martial skills. "He's a really brilliant swordsman," says Lucas. "He's done more sword-fights than any other actor. He was doing sword-fights back when the films that we're trying to mimic were the real films!"

"This is a different kind of sword-fighting, so he had to learn a new kind, and he's very good at that. And we had a really good stunt double that is a world-class swordsman. Through digital technology, we were able to take Christopher's likeness and put it on the stuntman, so the stuntman looks exactly like him. We combined the close-ups of Christopher and the stuntman, which is what you normally do in a movie, but now we were able to do it more precisely, so it's more seamless."

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