Three new photos from the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” have arrived, showcasing new looks at Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi along with Rupert Friend’s Grand Inquisitor.
It also shows off two key locations – the desert planet Tatooine which is quite familiar to every “Star Wars” fan, and a futuristic cyberpunk style planet called Daiyu.
Speaking with Total Film as part of the cover story that premiered the photos, McGregor says he felt “a proper jolt of absolute fear” when acting against the Darth Vader character – his first time:
“I’ve never met Darth Vader. I had rehearsed the scene with Vader, but not with the helmet on or anything like that. When we came to do the scene, when they shouted ‘action’, he had to come from behind me. I turned around, and f–king Darth Vader was coming at me. It was like I was six again. I’d never acted into Vader’s helmet. I’d never looked him in the eye.
It scared the s–t out of me. I’m not joking. It gave me a proper jolt of absolute fear. I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s not acting. That’s real. I’m really, truly frightened right now.’ And the same thing would happen with the Stormtroopers. I’d worked with Clone troopers before, but so many of them were CGI. I never worked with Stormtroopers, and, again, I was like seven years old again. Because when you’re actually faced with a Stormtrooper, with a blaster, it’s like: ‘F–king hell.'”
Deborah Chow helms the entire run of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and in the interview has shot down reports that Darth Maul was going to serve as a villain in the upcoming series before Hayden Christensen’s Darth Vader and the Inquisitors were involved:
“As long as I’ve been involved, we’ve never had Darth Maul in any of it. Dave [Filoni] did a beautiful job of telling that story already. For anybody trying to tell a story in the middle of these two trilogies, there were only certain elements that made sense in where [Obi-Wan] is. With a lot of the legacy aspects, the decision to bring Vader into it was not made lightly.”
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” premieres with two episodes on May 27th on the Disney+ service.
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