Freddie Prinze Jr.'s daughter 'loves bad guys'

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Freddie Prinze Jr. said his daughter has an affinity for "bad guys" in movies and television because they get to do whatever they want.

In an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show on Thursday, the actor said his daughter was excited to learn he was the voice of a Jedi in Disney Channel's Star Wars Rebels.

Prinze said he kept his new job from his 5-year-old daughter, Charlotte, because "I wanted to still be magical and special."

"All the kids at her school ruined that right away," he said. "They saw commercials and their parents tell them and they're like, 'Your dad's a Jedi!' So, Charlotte comes home and she goes, 'Daddy, what is this show? I wanna watch this show that you're on! Why didn't you tell me about the show?' I'm like, 'Baby, it's not on yet. I was going to surprise you.' She's like, 'Everybody knows this!' She's 5! She's 5 years old. 'Everybody knows about this show but me!' She sounds like girls I knew in high school, you know what I mean? Like, 'I can't believe you watched Twin Peaks without me! Oh, my God!' It's just like, 'What? Calm down! There's a Sesame Street on. Relax.' But she's so hardcore and she loves bad guys, man."

He joked that Charlotte would be a Sith Lord one day, another "bad guy" character from Star Wars.

"She sees bad guys in any cartoon and the first thing she asks is, 'Why don't they have to do what anyone tells them?' It's the first thing she says -- the first thing she says! I literally had an argument with her. We were watching the Disney parade -- the Christmas parade -- and Darth Vader's walking in the parade, which for an old school fan is very weird because he was walking next to Aladdin and they were cool and he wasn't force choking him or anything. She goes, 'Is he a bad guy?' I said, 'Yeah, he's a bad guy.' She goes, 'Does he get to do whatever he wants?' I had this father moment where I'm willing to lie to a child, so I said, 'No, he can't do whatever he wants.' And she goes, 'Well, who's his boss?' I said, 'The emperor!' She said, 'Who's the emperor?' I said, 'I am the emperor -- and that's all you need to know!' "