'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Interviews with Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram & Deborah Chow
"Obi-Wan Kenobi" stars Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram and director Deborah Chow discuss their Star Wars series in this interview.
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00:00 I think that's one of the satisfying things for the fans,
00:02 is that we do have strands
00:05 between episode three and episode four
00:08 that I think will be very satisfying
00:10 for the fans and the audience.
00:12 - Hello there.
00:13 - It was interesting and it was sort of representative
00:23 of where he's at, you know,
00:25 in terms of his existence now with the Jedi Order,
00:30 which has been, as we know,
00:33 destroyed at the end of "The Revenge of the Sith."
00:36 So he's living in a very different sort of time.
00:39 I think it is a darker time.
00:41 And personally speaking, he's living without the Force
00:45 and he's in hiding.
00:48 He can't use the Force for fear of being found out.
00:51 We can see from the trailer that there are Inquisitors,
00:55 the Grand Inquisitor and the Inquisitors,
00:57 whose job it is to hunt down the last Jedi
01:00 and to destroy them.
01:01 So he's living with this hanging over him.
01:05 And I think the fear of it is driven mainly
01:09 because he has this responsibility to Luke Skywalker
01:12 and the promise that he made to Padme to look after him.
01:16 And so that's his only real link to the past, is that.
01:21 - Obviously, you know, at this point in the timeline,
01:23 you know, all the Jedis are in hiding.
01:25 So it's like he can't go out
01:27 and be using the Force all the time or be using his saber.
01:30 So it's an interesting thing to take a character
01:32 that is so quintessentially a Jedi
01:35 and then you're kind of stripping them down
01:36 and taking away a lot of the tools
01:38 that they're known for, they usually use.
01:41 So it was a very,
01:43 it was kind of a very cool starting point, honestly,
01:45 to take this character and then have the opportunity
01:48 to try to build them back up over the course of the series.
01:51 - I, myself, actually got in trouble
01:53 because I was informed that my character
01:58 is indeed not of the Sith, but of the Inquisitorius,
02:02 which is a big, big difference.
02:05 Can I tell you the difference?
02:06 I would not dare try, not on camera.
02:10 - Sith, there's the rule of two.
02:11 So, you know, it's not an open membership on that one.
02:15 But, you know, I think they're all,
02:17 what's interesting about the Inquisitors
02:20 is that they're all individuals.
02:22 You know, they're not a monolithic team or an entity.
02:25 So they all have a really interesting backstory.
02:27 And some of those backstories, you know,
02:29 they've already delved into,
02:30 and there's so much more, I think, there to explore.
02:33 But to me, they all had different reasons why they turned,
02:36 and they're all very powerful.
02:38 So it's a collective of individuals,
02:40 which I think makes the Inquisitors so interesting.
02:43 - Everyone knows Obi-Wan and Darth Vader.
02:46 They're like the quintessential archetypal hero
02:50 and, you know, villain.
02:51 So just being around them, seeing them in costume on set,
02:56 there'd be many times where I'd have to double take
02:59 and check myself.
03:00 Like, oh my God, I can't believe that this is happening.
03:03 I can't believe that this is happening.
03:05 And the closer we get to people seeing it,
03:07 I think the more surreal that it gets
03:08 that I had anything to do with what we're about to see.
03:12 - Yeah, that was the trickiest thing.
03:15 You know, we're trying to tell a story
03:16 that's in between two trilogies,
03:18 where everybody knows what happened before
03:19 and after to these characters.
03:22 So in large part, we're trying to tell the second act
03:24 for these characters.
03:25 So, you know, I think we tried to approach it
03:28 with just as much respect as we could to the canon.
03:31 And, you know, we definitely felt the responsibility
03:33 of that, but at the same time,
03:34 we really did need to tell an original story
03:36 and tell a new story.
03:37 But I think one of the most exciting things
03:39 was within that framework, you know,
03:42 coming from a character perspective,
03:44 this is a different point.
03:45 They're not the exact character that they were
03:47 at the end of "Revenge of the Sith" or in "A New Hope."
03:49 So it was really interesting to explore that at this point.
03:52 I mean, we definitely wanted this show
03:55 to be character-driven and, you know,
03:56 first and foremost, the show is called "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
03:59 It is about him.
04:00 And I think, you know, one of the most important things
04:02 to us was that we really wanted to have
04:04 a little bit more depth and spend more time
04:06 and get to really know him, not only the Jedi,
04:08 but also the man and get more into the character.
04:11 So for me, I think I would probably describe it as,
04:14 it is a very personal story.
04:15 It is a very emotional story,
04:18 but it's definitely set in a fairly epic,
04:21 sort of mythic environment.
04:23 - I felt like at some times,
04:25 Obi-Wan had accepted that the Jedi was finished,
04:28 like it was over.
04:29 And at other times I felt,
04:30 well, he is looking over Luke Skywalker
04:32 and he might be doing that because he feels like
04:34 Luke Skywalker might become a Jedi.
04:36 So, and he should be there to help him.
04:38 And we know, you know, in "A New Hope,"
04:40 at the beginning of "A New Hope,"
04:42 as soon as Alec Guinness meets Mark Hamill,
04:45 he immediately starts talking about the Jedi
04:47 and gets the lightsabers out.
04:48 And he's, so clearly he has hope in him.
04:53 But at the beginning of our series,
04:54 I think I'm not sure that that hope is very,
04:56 it's probably pretty much buried down.
04:59 I think that definitely,
05:01 that will be one of the satisfying things
05:03 about watching it, I think.
05:05 [dramatic music]
05:08 - You can't run, Obi-Wan!
05:10 [lasers firing]
05:13 You can't escape him!
05:16 [dramatic music]
05:18 [lasers firing]
05:22 [dramatic music]
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