EPISODE 498.5 - SAM WITWER ON 'MAUL: SHADOW LORD'
My Mom's Basement
Barstool Sports
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Robbie is joined by Sam Witwer to discuss #MaulShadowLord, as well as a whole lot more about Darth Maul and Sam's portrayal of him over the past fifteen years. They talk about Maul's mindset in this show, how it was crafted, who Maul's favorite Beatle woulda been, and more! #DarthMaul #StarWars #SamWitwer **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basement
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right, welcome back to My Mom's Basement, ladies and gentlemen. It is Robbie Fox, and I am here with a man I've been a fan of for a very long time going back to the Force Unleash Days, of course. It is Sam Whitworth. Thank you so much for the time. I'm excited to talk Mall Shadow Lord with you today. It's a show that I've been loving, and I've been saying, as long as it sticks this landing, it's going to be my favorite Star Wars animated show of all time. Uh-oh. Well, that's, uh, pressure's on, I suppose. I suppose, but I, you know what? I have the ultimate faith in the entire team behind Mall Shadowlord, because honestly, |
| 0:41.9 | Star Wars animation never lets me down. |
| 0:44.2 | Well, I hope that we can keep up that trend. |
| 0:46.6 | I mean, we certainly, that team is extraordinary. |
| 0:50.0 | They're incredible. |
| 0:50.9 | And I've known them for a long time. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, I heard Dave Filoni talking about this show |
| 0:55.1 | early on when it was first announced. And he said that in some respects, it's going to pay off |
| 1:00.0 | some of the ideas that George had for the character and some of the things George was thinking |
| 1:03.8 | about. Does your knowledge of this stuff go all the way back to when George was developing it, |
| 1:08.8 | some of the threads in this series? |
| 1:16.6 | I know some stuff. I don't know what Dave knows, but I know some stuff, you know, things that he's told me or whispers here and there. But yeah, I was aware that George had an interest in the |
| 1:26.8 | Darth Mall character, and I suppose I'm very happy |
| 1:30.5 | about that I was also aware that George I I guess approved of what I what I did |
| 1:38.9 | he wrote me a nice letter once to that effect and and so I just hope that he |
| 1:43.9 | continues to tell like what we're |
| 1:46.7 | doing with his character, you know? Of course. Yeah. When were you made aware of Mall Shadow |
| 1:54.1 | Lord becoming a reality and getting to really dive into this stuff? A bit over two years ago. |
| 2:00.0 | And I was surprised. it hadn't occurred to me |
| 2:04.4 | that we would revisit the character in that way. And did you know back then when you first got told |
| 2:10.0 | we're doing Mall Shadow Lord that it would have this very unique animation style that goes off in that |
| 2:15.2 | really practical textured brushstroke style. |
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