McGregor had graduated from London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and embarked on a career in independent cinema. “I didn’t have to struggle to find him, it was just very natural. “The writing was particularly good in Trainspotting, so that’s helpful, and it seemed like he’d just been inside me all that time,” McGregor says. Credit:Jaap Buitendijk/Sony - TriStar Pictures Mark Renton (McGregor) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) in T2: Trainspotting. My first scene in T2, I walk into a pub and there’s Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and we haven’t seen each other for 20 years and he just looks up goes, hello, Mark. “It was quite nerve-wracking,” McGregor says. In 2017, McGregor had a second outing as another of his most memorable characters, Mark Renton, in T2 Trainspotting, the sequel to 1996’s Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle. For McGregor, pulling on the tan and brown Jedi robes he had worn as Obi-Wan in the three Star Wars prequels, produced between 19, was the second such artistic odyssey. Credit:Lucasfilm / Disney+įew actors get the opportunity to return to an iconic role decades after they have originated it. It took me right back to being a kid.”Įwan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. I was so frightened of this image of him coming at me. “I wasn’t acting, it wasn’t in the scene. “They call action, I turn around and there’s Darth Vader coming at me and I experienced a six-year-old’s jolt of fear,” McGregor says. It was, McGregor says, the stuff of childhood nightmares.
On the set of Obi-Wan Kenobi, McGregor rehearsed the confrontation between the two partially out of costume, but for the filmed take he turned as instructed and came face to face with the fully costumed Dark Lord of the Sith in all his terrifying spectacle. “At the very end of we see him become Vader, but Obi-Wan has not met him yet.” “There was a moment, the first moment I worked with Vader, and as you say, I didn’t see him in the first three films, he didn’t exist yet,” McGregor says.
WHO PLAYED OBI WAN KENOBI SERIES
There was a moment in the filming of the new television series Obi-Wan Kenobi where actor Ewan McGregor felt the boundary between production and performance, and cellular memory from our shared cultural childhood, shatter.Įven though his character, the Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, is deeply connected to protagonist Anakin Skywalker, in the prequel Star Wars films, at least, McGregor’s Kenobi had never shared the screen with Anakin’s alter-ego, the black-armour-clad Darth Vader.
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