The star who played the Jedi Master in the Star Wars prequels returns to the iconic role
Obi-Wan Kenobi was played by Ewan McGregor in the Star Wars prequels, and he will be returning in a Disney Plus series
Maybe this is the show you are looking for Ewan McGregor confirmed on The Graham Norton Show on Friday that his new Disney Plus series on Obi-Wan Kenobi will begin filming in March 2021
“This is Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story, I guess,” McGregor told Norton “It’s not all (about) me, but it will definitely be a lot of me, which is good! we start filming it in march next year »
McGregor said that while he never met Sir Alec Guinness, who originally came to the role in the original 1977 Star Wars film, he was helped to prepare by thinking about how Guinness would have been. played Kenobi as a young man
« I’ve never met (Guinness), but I love him through his work, » McGregor noted, saying he watched a lot of old Guinness movies to prepare
The Obi-Wan Kenobi show was announced in 2019 and is slated to be a one-season, six-episode show, McGregor told Entertainment Tonight in a previous interview. The series is set eight years after Revenge of the Sith and 11 years before A New Hope, at a time when the Jedi Order has been nearly wiped out
The show has been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak, but a release date looks likely in late 2021 or early 2022
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