He’s not giving up on this…. speaking with Variety at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Ewan McGregor has unpacked a number of ideas he pitched to Lucasfilm’s Co-President & Chief Creative Office Dave Filoni about a potential return for his Star Wars character.
He explained that he told the LucasFilm president and CCO he wants to come back to the franchise, pitching the idea that Obi-Wan could be seeking out Yoda between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. He even held out hope for a love story between Obi-Wan and Hera Syndulla, played by McGregor’s real-life wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
It was very casual, but I said there’s got to be something. Because Yoda’s somewhere else. After the end of ‘Episode III’, when we all go to the four or five corners of the galaxy — or however many corners it’s got! — I won’t have been in touch with him. But he’s out there. So I think there could be a story there where I’m trying to reach out to him.
I got very excited when Mary started working on ‘Ahsoka’. I thought, maybe this is the big love story — Obi-Wan and Hera…
However, when it comes to a connection between Obi-Wan and Hera, he acknowledged it probably wasn’t going to happen, given how far apart in the Star Wars timeline both characters are. While Obi-Wan died during the events of A New Hope, Hera appears in the Ahsoka TV series, which takes place many years after. As of writing, there’s no official news regarding McGregor coming back to the franchise. Luckily, he’s very interested in the idea, stating that he had fun working on the TV show and would be open to a brand-new project in the future:
I enjoyed doing the series very much… and would be happy to do it again. I like playing him — he’s a really good character to play.
See McGregor in The End Of Oak Street, produced by J.J. Abrams, with SFX by Industrial Light & Magic, in cinemas now.
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