Star Wars: Brian Blessed Revisits Boss Nass 25 Years On: ‘I Have Never Known Such Ecstasy’

Blessed hoped to be cast in the original trilogy, but suspects his iconic role in the similarly space- operatic Flash Gordon in 1980 may have gotten in the way. It wasn’t until the late ’90s, with The Phantom Menace entering pre-production, that he finally secured a meeting with George Lucas. “They were keen for me to be...