#Obi wan kenobi cast series#

McGregor however, was completely new to the shooting stagecraft. A lot of times, I’d be looking at the scene, even as we were writing it, thinking about how is this going to translate into the volume? And how can, how can we take advantage of the tech as best as possible?” – Deborah Chow It was also really exciting to be able to design and to develop material knowing that I was going to shoot stagecraft. “By the time we came to do Kenobi, there were things that we could do that we couldn’t do on The Mandalorian. She goes on to explain that even since the first season of The Mandalorian, the technology has advanced. “I was actually incredibly excited to be able to use it on Kenobi as well.” Chow says. For Director Deborah Chow, this wasn’t new to her, as she has directed for The Mandalorian before. Obi-Wan Kenobi was filmed using the same stagecraft technology that LucasFilm has used for The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett. The biggest thing we were looking at is to respect the canon and respect what’s been done, but we also need to have an original story and have an original vision for it.” She adds that at the same time, it was very exciting to be bringing back two huge iconic characters, and getting to tell a new story with them. In large part, we’re telling the second act of a story, which is often challenging enough. “We have these huge, legacy, iconic characters and we’re in between two trilogies. This is what Director Deborah Chow says was one of her biggest challenges.

#Obi wan kenobi cast series#

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series is kind of like a sequel and a prequel at the same time.

“It was interesting to take a character that we know and love, and take him to this more broken place.” The only responsibility to his past life is looking over Luke Skywalker. He is living a solitary life and, as Ewan himself describes it, it is like somebody who has stepped away from their religion, he’s losing faith. They can’t communicate with one another, so for ten years, which is when Obi-Wan Kenobi is set, Obi-Wan has been in hiding. One that will satisfy the fans sitting between those two episodes.”Īt the end of the third episode, the Jedi Order are destroyed and those who haven’t been killed have gone into hiding. “We’ve ended up with a really, really brilliant story. He is confident that they found this story, after a lengthy process of exploring several different storylines. But that there had to be a good story between Episode Three and Episode Four. He said yes, that he would love to play him again.

That warmed my feelings about them, I guess, or my experience of being in the Star Wars world.” – Ewan McGregorĭisney started seeing that Ewan would be willing to play Obi-Wan again on social media, and called him in for a meeting, asking if it was true. So gradually, I started realizing that people really liked them, and that they meant a lot to that generation. “I became more aware of the fondness that the generation we made the prequels for have for those films, because when we made them, we didn’t hear that. Eventually he just started answering the question honestly, and that got the fans of the prequels buzzing. He admits that two things he would always get asked during interviews with press was would he do the sequel to Trainspotting, and would he ever play Obi-Wan again. He was never going to come back just for the sake of coming back. Ewan McGregor (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”/ Executive Producer)Įwan McGregor has always said he would love to play Obi-Wan again, but that it had to be the right story.