Speaking at a panel at the Göteborg Film Festival (via Variety.com), Ewan McGregor shared some disappointing news for those waiting for a second season of the Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi show.
“I would love to do the second season, but there’s no talk of it yet. There is a lot going on at Disney,” McGregor said in a panel at Göteborg Film Festival.
Despite having fallen in love with playing the character, McGregor told the trade it wasn’t always that way. In fact, McGregor said it was initially a hard sell to get him to board Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
“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,” the actor said in his chat.
“I am happy that I am this character for a lot of people, but when these films came out, they were so disliked,” he added. “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.”
Stream McGregor in the first season of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+ now.
