Cushing admitted many years later to not knowing what a "Grand Moff" actually was, joking that it sounded like "something which infests a clothes closet" and decided to play him as a "deeply cross and unpleasant gentleman". Director George Lucas agreed to limit shots where Cushing's feet would be visible, allowing him to wear slippers.
Portrayals ĭuring the production of Star Wars, Peter Cushing found Tarkin's boots, furnished by the wardrobe department, to be very uncomfortable. According to a book created to help promote the original film to prospective theaters, he aspires to become the Emperor. As the Emperor would not appear until later in the original trilogy, Lucas used Tarkin's final version as the "main villain" of the first film, a personification of the Empire. Grand Moff Tarkin's character was originally conceived as a holy man from the planet Aquila, but was changed later in the creative process into an antagonist. Tarkin's character has been well-received, and he has been called "one of the most formidable villains in Star Wars history."
His philosophy of "ruling through fear of force" becomes central to Imperial policy and earns him the position of the first Grand Moff in the Empire. In the novel, Tarkin advocates for the Tarkin Doctrine, an entirely fear-based military system in which the Empire uses large numbers of intimidating capital ships and strike fighters to seem undefeatable, so that no one would dare to try and rise up against it. He is also the protagonist of the 2014 novel Tarkin, which details the character's backstory and rise to power within the Empire's ranks.
Outside of the original film, Tarkin has made appearances in various canon and non-canon Star Wars media, including the animated series The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch, and the films Revenge of the Sith and Rogue One. He orders the destruction of the planet Alderaan by the station's superlaser, and is killed at the end of the film, when Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star. In the film, Tarkin is depicted as a high-ranking officer of the Galactic Empire, placed in charge of the operations on the Death Star, the Empire's dwarf planet-sized battle station. Wilhuff Tarkin is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, introduced in the original 1977 Star Wars film (played by Peter Cushing) as one of its two central antagonists, alongside Darth Vader.
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