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Ewan McGregor Reveals Brutal Oasis Joke

by Bishal Roy
September 5, 2022
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Ewan McGregor Reveals Brutal Oasis Joke
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Ewan McGregor recently revealed that he almost passed on the “Star Wars” prequels due to his “grunge” persona in British indie cinema. Back in 90s, following the success with Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” in 1996, McGregor second-guessed signing on to “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.” McGregor portrayed the younger version of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 1999 trilogy, a role which he later reprised for the Disney+ series that premiered earlier this year.

Ewan McGregor opens up on Star Wars

“I really had to think about it,” McGregor said during the “Smartless” podcast, hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes. “Because it came right after that ‘Trainspotting’ period, and by that time I was so full of myself.”

The 51-year-old actor joked, “I was like, ‘I am Danny Boyle’s actor. I am f***ing urban grunge. I am the Oasis of the British movie industry,’ and then when ‘Star Wars’ came around, I felt, ‘I don’t know if I want to do this. This isn’t me.’”

McGregor was concerned about being typecast. “I was so into being this sort of antihero,” he shared. “I felt like an indie British actor. I felt like that defined me.”

His uncle, Denis Lawson, was also in all three of the original “Star Wars” films, and warned him against doing them. However, “Trainspotting” director Boyle said the opposite and encouraged McGregor to do “Star Wars.”

Yet it was McGregor’s childhood affinity for the “Star Wars” franchise that really inspired the him to join the films. “In the end, it just got closer and closer,” McGregor explained, adding that meeting George Lucas was part of the deciding factor. “By that time, I was just so attached to the idea of it from when I was a kid. To get a chance to be that character and play the younger Alec Guinness was pretty awesome.”

He added, “I was almost grateful to be involved in something that big and to be part of the legend of it, because I loved it. When I was a kid, I loved those films. I was six or seven when the first one came out. It’s in me somehow.”

Returning the canon for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” was a homecoming of sorts for McGregor. Despite the prequels being “universally” disliked, McGregor’s return in “Obi-Wan Kenobi” was critically praised.

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