From Star Wars' menacing Darth Vader to The Lion King's gentle Mufasa, James gave voice to some of film's most iconic characters. "When I'm asked, did I always have that kind of voice, the answer is no," admitted the star, who stuttered so badly as a child he stopped talking from first grade through his freshman year of high school. <img src="https://cdn.magzter.com/1626675679/1726551070/articles/Vvle6Q3WH1726987405231/7066075507.jpg" alt="image">With the help of an English teacher, James overcame his speech impediment and discovered his life's passion. "It wasn't acting. It was language. <img src="https://cdn.magzter.com/1626675679/1726551070/articles/Vvle6Q3WH1726987405231/0666096277.jpg" alt="image">It was speech," said the two-time Tony winner. "It was the thing that I'd denied myself all those years [as a boy]. I now had a great an abnormal-appreciation for it. And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play or any well-written play- and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life. That's what it's still about."

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