Ewan McGregor shares discarded ideas for the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, including a more pathetic portrayal of the character as a lost and beaten-up waiter in a bar.
That's how Luke Skywalker first describes the aging, reclusive Jedi in 1977's original Star Wars —and Ewan McGregor has now revealed just how much of an outcast the character almost was in the 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series. The Disney+ show was set in the years between Revenge of the Sith and that original film, A New Hope, and it showed McGregor's middle-aged galactic refugee toiling in a low-level butcher shop while maintaining his watch over young Luke from afar.
“There's Instagram, there's Twitter, there's whatever, and every day I'm seeing people going, ‘When are you doing another Obi-Wan?’ And I realized, oh my God, there's this real desire. I was surprised. And also I thought it was quite funny that it was just every day.” Journalists began regularly asking him the same question. “The end of every interview was like, will you be playing Obi-Wan?' There was no plan. No one had ever talked to me about it.
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