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Manner again in 2019, after quite a lot of rumors and dropped hints, the information was lastly made official: Ewan McGregor can be returning as Obi-Wan Kenobi, the character he’d performed within the Star Wars prequels, in a Disney+ sequence created across the character’s pre-A New Hope time on Tatooine. The present premiered in 2022 and was typically well-received, however wasn’t a popular culture sensation within the method of Andor or The Mandalorian. Nonetheless, given the character’s reputation, McGregor’s apparent enjoyment of enjoying him, and the questions the present left behind, it’s virtually shocking that Obi-Wan Kenobi has but to get a second season.
And whereas McGregor—chatting with Selection on the event of his star being added to the Hollywood Stroll of Fame—has no information to share in that division, he nonetheless speaks about Obi-Wan Kenobi within the current tense. “I beloved, greater than something, attending to know Alec Guinness’ work as a result of I used to be enjoying him as a younger man,” McGregor advised the commerce. “Even now with the sequence, that’s my private problem—if a take feels a bit like him, I’m comfortable.”
His time enjoying Obi-Wan goes all the way in which again to 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, nevertheless it seems like McGregor is able to hold exploring the character. (At 53, he’s just below a decade youthful than Guinness was in A New Hope.) “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one,” he advised Selection. “Between the place we ended off within the sequence and when Alec Guinness comes on display with Luke Skywalker, I believe there’s one other few tales to inform in there.”
Hayden Christenen, whose tenure as famous Obi-Wan affiliate Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader kicked off in 2002’s Assault of the Clones and most lately included 2023’s Ahsoka, would like to group again up with McGregor. “If it implies that I acquired to do extra with Ewan, then that’s a no brainer, however I actually hope that he continues with the character. Simply as a fan, it’s so thrilling to get to observe him play Obi-Wan—he’s simply so good at it.”
If a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears unlikely at this level, it’s price remembering that there’s additionally been no official announcement relating to the present’s future—one thing Lucasfilm and Disney+ didn’t maintain again on relating to, to call one other Star Wars present, the lately concluded Acolyte. As of now, it seems to nonetheless be a risk, particularly since McGregor is so enthusiastic concerning the thought. Would you be in favor of an Obi-Wan Kenobi return?
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