Meet new characters from the Star Wars saga (since 1977), such as Jyn Erso from Felicity Jones and her friends in Rogue One (2016) or the bounty hunter played by Pedro Pascal, little Grogu and company on The Mandalorian (as of 2019), it's only fitting that these galactic adventures make real contributions. But we also understand that they offer us miniseries like Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022): mythical characters attract the audience.
Above all, if the Jedi played by the Scotsman Ewan McGregor during the George Lucas prequel trilogy (1999-2005) after the work of Alec Guinness in the original feature films and, now, in the six episodes directed by Canadian Deborah Chow, he is accompanied by Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader. The former, along with the filmmaker and Moses Ingram, who plays the inquisitor Reva, has answered a few questions for us at an international press conference.
“For years, I was asked two things: if I would do the sequel to Trainspotting and if I would ever play Obi-Wan Kenobi again ”, tells Ewan McGregor to the media in Spain. “It was always the last two questions as the publicist stuck her head in the door saying, 'That's the last question.'” And, in truth, it has confirmed both possibilities and, thus, the wish of many viewers: thanks to the sequel about Mark Renton and the Disney+ miniseries.
Ewan McGregor, recovering the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi
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The famous company that owns Lucasfilm “asked him to go one day for a meeting because they kept seeing on social networks that he said he would like to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again,” continues the actor , “as if he was begging for a job at the door of Disney”, and “ they asked him if he was serious and he said yes”. Someone who could have been Christian in Moulin Rouge (2001) or the young Ed Bloom in Big Fish (2003), longing to return to the Jedi Knight.
And the scripts satisfied him: “The writing was so good (…) because, from the beginning, in all his things, for me Alec could have said them Guinness. So, I knew we were on the right track.” At least with its protagonist. But, to get his voice back, he had to make an effort : “I just did some kind of [acento] vague English and it wasn't really the Obi-Wan's voice at all. And I was like, “Oh, darling. That's not very good.'”
“Fortunately, we had months before we started filming, so I went back and did some homework with Alec Guinness , what he had done before in the original [precuelas] movies”, explains Ewan McGregor, for whom it was a great joy to meet again with Hayden Christensen. “When I saw him again and was able to talk about this project with him, it was very, very exciting. And when we acted together, it was really like a kind of time warp.”
A series of six episodes that seems like a single movie
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One of the biggest differences that the British interpreter has perceived regarding the Star Wars prequels is related to the digital cameras of that time, very noisy: “In post-production, they realized that the noise they made was exactly at the frequency of the human voice ”, so they had to dub the dialogues, which did not survive “because the cameras were very new”. And, “compared to what we're doing now, it's like night and day.”
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Not so much on what I know refers to the television format, on the other hand: “The beauty of [Obi-Wan Kenobi] being a series is that we have more time to tell the story,” declares Ewan McGregor. “But because Deborah Chow directed all of [los capítulos], and it's her singular vision throughout, it felt like we were just making one movie. And the episodic nature of our series fits very well into the plot ”. Next day 27 we will check it on Disney+.
