![]() Playing him felt totally like he had always been there, ready to come out at any minute. Luckily we had months before we actually started shooting, so we went back and did some homework with Alec Guinness, which I had done before in the original films. And it was not, it wasn’t really Obi-Wan’s voice at all! I was like “Oh dear, that’s not very good.” But then when we came to do the actual scenes with the other actors, I was doing this sort of vague English accent. ![]() So there was a sort of buzz about Obi-Wan walking back onstage. And walking out onto the set was crazy because there’s so many Star Wars fans in the crew, which was a new experience for me. Putting that on was…really crazy after all that time. And I walked into the dressing room and there was a sort of Obi-Wanish costume hanging up in the wardrobe that the Mandalorians wardrobe department had put together. So I arrived, and we borrowed a bit of Mandalorian stage on a Sunday when they were off. We did screen tests with different actors for those roles and that was the first thing I did as Obi-Wan again since 2003. We did a casting, Deb and I did a casting for two roles in the series that we wanted. There’s two things I think I had to work on, that and his voice. “…We did a lot of lightsaber drills with Jojo and his team, and it was something that you have to work on, it’s not like there right away. McGregor explained in a recent interview what his experience was like readjusting to this legendary role. OBI-WAN: EWAN MCGREGOR HAD TO REDISCOVER THE VOICE OF KENOBI James Arnold Taylor masterfully continued the characters story in animation on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The last time McGregor played Obi-Wan prior to the production of this show was in the early 2000’s, during the filming of Revenge Of The Sith. Furthermore, despite the critical bashing that co-star Hayden Christensen received, Ewan McGregor’s performance was oft-regard as one of the highlights of that Star Wars era, even at the time of release.Įwan McGregor picked up the torch from beloved actor Alec Guinness, who played Old Ben Kenobi in the original trilogy, both in the flesh and as a force ghost in the latter two installments. Though critics were harsh on those films in years past, modern reappraisals and vocal fans have readjusted perception of that trilogy in the modern day. Ewan McGregor, star of Obi-Wan Kenobi, shares his story on how Alec Guinness inspires his performance and how he had to find the voice of Ben Kenobi once again.Įwan McGregor rose to international fame for his performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the George Lucas directed prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Episodes I-III.
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