Beloved by millions in recent years, the prequel trilogy – especially the 25 year old first episode The Phantom Menace – was bashed beyond belief by critics and audiences of the time and while the movie almost made a billion dollars – only beaten at the time by Titanic – it certainly made star Ewan McGregor pause, despite his contract meaning he still had two more films to make.
“It wasn’t a done deal for me. I didn’t think it was at all who I was. I believed, at that point, I was a Danny Boyle actor. ‘The Beach’ was more important and I meant it, it wasn’t flippant. I did ask a lot of people for advice.”
“I am happy that I am this character for a lot of people, but when these films came out, they were so disliked. That was hard. The first one was panned and we still had to make another two! It was weird to be in a film that was hammered.”
Ewan also mentioned a potential second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a show he’d clearly love to make.
“I would love to do the second season, but there’s no talk of it yet. There is a lot going on at Disney.”
