“Playing him felt totally like he'd always been there ready to come out any minute,” McGregor stated. The accent was the last piece of the Jedi’s puzzle to fall into place - the rest was muscle memory. With filming still months away, the actor revisited his work in the prequel trilogy and consulted with Alec Guinness from the original trilogy to revive Obi-Wan’s voice. After so many years away from the role, he found himself rehearsing with an accent that wasn’t quite right. On working with Christensen again, McGregor shared that it felt like “the last 17 years didn't happen at all.” The same, however, couldn’t immediately be said for McGregor’s accent. McGregor compared it to “somebody who’s stepped away from religion.”įans have been eagerly awaiting the moment when Obi-Wan and Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) meet in this series, and their reunion does not disappoint.
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Obi-Wan’s isolation and inability to use the Force in this series finds him in this faithless state. For McGregor, the exploration of Obi-Wan’s broken state was an interesting change from the more powerful version he played in the previous Star Wars films. “It was interesting for us to try to keep the balance of that, of the darkness but also still maintaining the hope coming from the character,” Chow stated. The series zooms in on Obi-Wan’s solitude, showing the hopelessness he’s resigned himself to while his innate hopefulness rests below the surface - the team worked hard to ensure that duality was present. Having the limited series set after the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and before Episode IV gives the audience a closer look at the evolution of the Obi-Wan they were first introduced to. In Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, audiences met Obi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi who lived in solitude.
“He's living in the desert alone, and so I suppose my Obi-Wan now is just a bit closer to his,” McGregor noted. Stepping back into his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi, McGregor was enthusiastic about bridging the gap between his initial version of the character, and the one played by Alec Guinness. Duty calls to Obi-Wan once more, taking him back to a long-standing fight set in a new world. The stakes are raised even higher when a young Princess Leia is taken from her home in Alderaan, and Obi-Wan is called on to bring her back home. However, his separation from the world he once knew looms close as Darth Vader enlists a league of Inquisitors, including an eager Reva, to hunt down any surviving Jedi. He honors his duty to watch over Luke Skywalker, but he does it from afar. In hiding to avoid capture by the Empire, Obi-Wan lives a humble and solitary life. Set ten years after the events that led Anakin Skywalker to become Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi brings the audience into what the Jedi Master has been up to. Executive producer Deborah Chow (who also directed the episodes “Chapter 3” and “Chapter 7” of The Mandalorian) serves as the sole director for all six episodes of the new limited series. Starring alongside them is Moses Ingram as the new and formidable antagonist, Reva, who works under Darth Vader as the Third Sister. Hayden Christensen also returns to his role as Darth Vader, following Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the Dark Side. Reprising his role as the title character is Ewan McGregor, who also serves as an executive producer on the limited miniseries.
Now streaming on Disney+, Obi-Wan Kenobi shows Star Wars fans that Obi-Wan has remained closer to his past than he let people believe. From the sands of Tatooine, a hero reemerges.
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