There are just a few days left for the premiere of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, the long-awaited Disney+ series in which Ewan McGregor returns to interpret the legendary jedi. The protagonist of ‘Trainspotting’ was happy at the time to leave behind that galaxy far, far away after ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’, reaching To think that I would never ever go back to her.
McGregor himself has now revealed in statements to Vanity Fair the exact moment in which he knew he wanted to get back into the skin of Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was in 2017, during a Star Wars movie marathon at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood:
They asked me if I wanted to introduce one, and I’ve never done anything like that, but it suddenly occurred to me that I really wanted to.
The actor is not clear what caused this sudden changebut it does highlight that “I think it has to do with growing up“In addition, McGregor enjoyed the experience, which led him to look at the saga differently and begin to say in interviews that he would be willing to bring Anakin Skywalker’s master back to life.
Your vision of the character
It didn’t take long for Lucasfilm to check if McGregor was serious and they asked him directly, to which he replied “Yeah I’m serious, I’d love to do it again“. Shortly after, an agreement was reached. to lead a film that eventually evolved into a television series. In addition, on this occasion he also acts as a producer, which allows him to play more tricks in terms of history, this being what he commented on his vision of his character:
I think it should be a story about a broken man, a man who has lost faith.’ He always has a funny line to say or he always seems calm and he’s a good warrior or soldier or whatever, but seeing that man fall apart and what makes him come back together, that’s where we start…