Manner again in 2019, after a number 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+ collection created across the character’s pre-A New Hope time on Tatooine. The present premiered in 2022 and was usually well-received, however wasn’t a popular culture sensation within the method of Andor or The Mandalorian. Nonetheless, given the character’s recognition, McGregor’s apparent enjoyment of taking part in him, and the questions the present left behind, it’s virtually stunning 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 liked, greater than something, attending to know Alec Guinness’ work as a result of I used to be taking part in him as a younger man,” McGregor advised the commerce. “Even now with the collection, that’s my private problem—if a take feels a bit like him, I’m joyful.”
His time taking part in Obi-Wan goes all the way in which again to 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, nevertheless it feels like McGregor is able to preserve exploring the character. (At 53, he’s slightly 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 collection and when Alec Guinness comes on display screen with Luke Skywalker, I feel 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 just lately included 2023’s Ahsoka, would like to group again up with McGregor. “If it implies that I obtained 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 look at 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 concerning the present’s future—one thing Lucasfilm and Disney+ didn’t maintain again on concerning, to call one other Star Wars present, the just lately concluded Acolyte. As of now, it seems to nonetheless be a risk, particularly since McGregor is so enthusiastic in regards to the concept. Would you be in favor of an Obi-Wan Kenobi return?
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