After accepting his Emmy award for lead actor in a limited series for Halston, Ewan McGregor spoke about the upcoming Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi Limited Series and said the it had finished shooting and that “it will not disappoint”.
“We finished shooting our series, and it was really, really good fun. I really enjoyed working with [director/executive producer] Deborah Chow, and I think it will not disappoint,” he said backstage. “The new technology that we employed doing it is cool, and it was a different experience than making the original three films that I did.
McGregor also exec produced the new limited series, centered on his character from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. For now, its plot remains under wraps. The veteran actor will star alongside Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton, Maya Erskine, Rupert Friend, fellow 2021 Emmy nom Moses Ingram, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kan, Simone Kessell, Kumail Nanjiani, Bonnie Piesse, Benny Sadie, Indira Varma and more.
Backstage, McGregor also explained why he’d appeared emotional, while accepting his Emmy. While he said that his win was “a surprise” and that it was “incredibly nerve-wracking” waiting for his category to be called, he also shared that he was impacted by the speeches of other winners—including Kate Winslet who he noted onstage—who touched on the importance of empowering women, both in and outside of entertainment.
“There were just a lot of very beautiful things said tonight in some of the other speeches. I have four daughters, and the importance of women and women’s rights, and equality for women, and equal pay for women…it’s so great to be in a room where people are talking about that,” he said. “I always think about my girls, so that is moving and important.”
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