Star Wars Jedi grasp Obi-Wan Kenobi is again for a six-part tv sequence and so is Ewan McGregor, who had performed him as a younger man. Forget the Jedi thoughts tips and lightsaber battles, although.
“Obi-Wan’s not doing that anymore. He’s living a normal life. He’s not living the life of a Jedi anymore,” mentioned McGregor, who can also be govt producer of the sequence, in an interview.
“We can see from the trailer that there are these inquisitors that are doing Vader’s job of tracking down the last Jedi. He wants to destroy every last Jedi,” he said. “They’re looking for him, so you can’t use the Force because he might give himself away.”
It has been 17 years since McGregor donned the cowl of the Jedi in “Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith,” the final of the prequel trilogy.
“They were very difficult to make. The blue screen, green screen nature of them were very difficult to act in and also they weren’t much liked when they came out,” the Scottish actor mentioned.
Few particulars of the sequence have been revealed, however they seem to set the stage for the primary assembly of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, the towering darkish knight that his former pupil Anakin Skywalker had was by the tip of the prequels.
McGregor, 51, is now nearer to the age of Alec Guinness when he performed Obi-Wan within the unique “Star Wars” trilogy. Hayden Christensen is reprising his position of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
“Acting with him on set just felt like this last 17 years just didn’t happen, like there was some crazy time warp or something,” McGregor mentioned. “It was very bizarre.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi begins streaming on Disney+ on May 27.
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