"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 between episode three and episode four
00:08 that I think will be very satisfying for the fans and the audience.
00:12 Hello there.
00:13 It was interesting and it was sort of representative of where he's at,
00:25 you know, in terms of his existence now, out with the Jedi Order,
00:31 which has been, as we know, destroyed at the end of the Revenge of the Sith.
00:37 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 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 and to destroy them.
01:01 So he's living with this hanging over him.
01:06 And I think the fear of it is driven mainly because he has this responsibility
01:11 to Luke Skywalker 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, you know,
01:24 all the Jedi's are in hiding.
01:25 So it's like he can't go out 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 that is so quintessentially a Jedi
01:35 and then you're kind of stripping them down and taking away a lot of the tools
01:38 that, you know, they're known for, they usually use.
01:42 So it was a very, it was kind of a very cool starting point, honestly,
01:45 to take this character and then have the opportunity to try to build him back up
01:49 over the course of the series.
01:51 I myself actually got in trouble because I was informed that
01:57 my character is indeed not of the Sith, but of the Inquisitorious,
02:02 which is a big, big difference.
02:05 Can I tell you the difference?
02:07 I would not dare try. Not on camera.
02:10 Sith, there's the rule of two.
02:12 So, you know, it's not an open membership on that one.
02:16 But, you know, I think they're all, 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, 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.
02:37 And they're all very powerful.
02:38 So it's a collective of individuals, which I think makes the Inquisitor
02:42 so interesting.
02:43 Everyone knows Obi-Wan and Darth Vader.
02:46 They're like the quintessential archetypal hero and villain.
02:52 And so just being around them, seeing them in costume on set,
02:57 there'd be many times where I'd have to double take 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 that I had anything to do
03:11 with what we're about to see.
03:14 Yeah, that was the trickiest thing.
03:15 You know, we're trying to tell a story that's
03:17 in between two trilogies where everybody knows what happened
03:19 before and after to these characters.
03:22 So in large part, we're trying to tell the second act for these characters.
03:25 So, you know, I think we tried to approach it with just as much respect
03:30 as we could to the canon.
03:31 And, you know, we definitely felt the responsibility of that.
03:34 But at the same time, we really did need to tell an original story
03:37 and tell a new story.
03:38 But I think one of the most exciting things
03:40 was within that framework, you know, coming
03:43 from a character perspective, this is a different point.
03:46 They're not the exact character that they
03:47 were at the end of Revenge of the Sith or in A New Hope.
03:50 So it was really interesting to explore that at this point.
03:52 I mean, we definitely wanted this show to be character driven.
03:56 And, you know, first and foremost, the show
03:57 is called Obi-Wan Kenobi.
03:59 It is about him.
04:00 And I think, you know, one of the most important things to us
04:03 was that we really wanted to have a little bit more depth
04:05 and spend more time and get to really know him,
04:08 not only the Jedi, but also the man,
04:10 and get more into the character.
04:12 So for me, I think I would probably describe it
04:14 as it is a very personal story.
04:16 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 sometimes Obi-Wan had accepted that the Jedi was
04:27 finished, like it was over.
04:29 And at other times, I felt, well, he
04:31 is looking over Luke Skywalker.
04:32 And he might be doing that because he
04:34 feels like Luke Skywalker might become a Jedi.
04:36 So 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,
04:55 I think I'm not sure that that hope is very--
04:57 it's probably pretty much buried down.
04:59 I think that definitely that will
05:02 be one of the satisfying things about watching it, I think.
05:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
05:08 You can't run, Obi-Wan!
05:09 [LASER FIRE]
05:12 [BEEPING]
05:14 You can't escape him!
05:15 [LASER FIRE]
05:18 [LASER FIRE]
05:21 [ROARING]
05:24 (dramatic music)
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