By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actor Ewan McGregor says reprising his legendary “Star Wars” position of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the upcoming Disney Plus restricted sequence has been an “absolutely brilliant” expertise.
The 50-year-old actor mentioned he’s having fun with each little bit of enjoying the character he first essayed in George Lucas’ “The Phantom Menace” (1999).
He got here again for its two sequels — “Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Revenge of the Sith” (2005) — with the latter marking his remaining look because the character.
Teasing his return to the franchise throughout an look on CBS Sunday Morning, McGregor mentioned, “I’m not saying anything! But to come back to play him again, Obi-Wan Kenobi, has been absolutely brilliant. I’m really enjoying it.”
The Golden Globe winner mentioned he has been avoiding questions associated to his “Star Wars” come again since 2005.
“That was annoying,” McGregor mentioned.
“Every interview I ever did for, you know, years, people would say, ‘Well, are the rumors true?’ ” “And I’d have to sort of, I’d have to lie. I’d have to say, ‘Well, you know, I don’t know. I’d be happy to play him one day again.’ I’d have to just keep saying, It started looking like I was sort of asking Disney for a job,” he added.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is likely one of the most pivotal characters of the “Star Wars” universe.
He was first portrayed by legendary actor Alec Guinness within the authentic 1977 film “A New Hope”.
Guinness later appeared as a pressure ghost within the two-follow-ups — “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Return of the Jedi” (1983).
The restricted sequence, based mostly on the character and starring McGregor, was introduced in August 2019.
“John Wick: Chapter 3” government producer Joby Harold is writing the sequence, with Deborah Chow hooked up to direct.
It shall be a single-season, six-episode present set eight years after “Revenge of the Sith” and 11 years earlier than “A New Hope”.
The solid additionally consists of Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton, Kumail Nanjiani, Maya Erskine, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Moses Ingram, Rupert Friend and Benny Safdie.
