VADER HANGS UP HIS CAPE WITH VIDEO FAREWELL

DARTH VADER has made his last on-screen appearance with a starring role in the new music video from Welsh rock musician Jayce Lewis. The man who played the iconic villain in the original Star Wars trilogy has starred in his final ever production after retiring from all professional and public appearances, due to ill health.

Now 82, Dave Prowse has gone in front of the camera one last time for his good friend and long-time collaborator Jayce Lewis – fittingly in a sci-fi themed video.

The pair – whom Dave describes as having a relationship “like father and son” – filmed the video for Jayce’s new single Shields at a 315,000sq ft warehouse near Port Talbot.

They met at a Star Wars convention almost 20 years ago and, after discovering a shared interest in music, Dave later became Jayce’s manager and business partner.

“It’s a nice relationship, which has gone on for years,” said Dave of his partnership with Jayce, 32. “It’s nice to have common interests. We have known each other for so long it’s like father and son working together.”

In the music video, Dave, who brought the most popular movie villain in history to life, plays a menacing government chief in charge of a secret experiment which opens a portal to another world and unleashes energy which he and his stooges struggle to control. That energy includes Jayce, 32, from Kenfig Hill, near Bridgend.

Transported into our realm from a parallel universe, Jayce struggles to free