Famous person Wars Jedi grasp Obi-Wan Kenobi is again for a six-part tv collection and so is Ewan McGregor, who had performed him as a tender guy. Fail to remember the Jedi thoughts methods and lightsaber battles, even though.
“Obi-Wan’s now not doing that anymore. He’s dwelling a typical existence. He’s now not dwelling the lifetime of a Jedi anymore,” stated McGregor, who may be govt manufacturer of the collection, in an interview.
“We will be able to see from the trailer that there are those inquisitors which can be doing Vader’s task of monitoring down the ultimate Jedi. He needs to break each and every ultimate Jedi,” he stated. “They’re in search of him, so you’ll’t use the Pressure as a result of he would possibly give himself away.”
It’s been 17 years since McGregor donned the cover of the Jedi in “Famous person Wars: The Revenge of the Sith,” the ultimate of the prequel trilogy.
“They have been very tricky to make. The blue display, inexperienced display nature of them have been very tricky to behave in and likewise they weren’t a lot preferred once they got here out,” the Scottish actor stated.
Few main points of the collection had been published, however they seem to set the level for the primary assembly of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, the towering darkish knight that his former student Anakin Skywalker had become by way of the tip of the prequels.
McGregor, 51, is now nearer to the age of Alec Guinness when he performed Obi-Wan within the unique “Famous person Wars” trilogy. Hayden Christensen is reprising his position of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
“Appearing with him on set simply felt like this ultimate 17 years simply didn’t occur, like there was once some loopy time warp or one thing,” McGregor stated. “It was once very peculiar.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi starts streaming on Disney+ on Would possibly 27.