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PALPATINE is confirmed to have some form of importance in Star Wars: Episode 9. Could it link to the mystery around Matt Smith?

It's paradoxical that seeing Ian McDiarmid play Palpatine again is, to me, both the worst and the best thing about The Rise of Skywalker : r/StarWars

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