Prologue
A few minutes after I got home from the audition, my phone rang. I made a silent wish that it would be the director. It was.
“Jonah?”
“Yes?” I replied, trying to sound as if my nascent hopes for a career in front of the camera weren’t trembling on his whim.
“Good news. I think you’re right for the part. But there is one thing. ”
“OK . . . ”
“We’re not going to use your voice—you’ll be dubbed. I like the way you did the lines and you look perfect, but you sounded a little too, uh, squeaky.”
“Squeaky?” I felt the excitement drain out of me.
“Look, Darth Vader is supposed to be the scariest guy in the galaxy. You’re just not that scary.”
I was in little position to argue. At nine years old, Louis Fox was a year older than me. He was ...
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