Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Vader Mentioned By the Actors

Although the look back at Obi-Wan Kenobi panel at Star Wars Celebration didn’t have any information about a second season of the present, it did give followers in attendance a new found appreciation for what the present meant to the forged and crew who labored on it.

Ewan McGregor did point out that he wished to do extra, and also you perceive why after listening to him discuss his experiences on the present. For instance, the primary time he watched the ultimate episode, when his character says goodbye to Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair), he admitted to crying uncontrollably. He and co-star Hayden Christensen additionally talked about that hugely impactful scene where Kenobi and Darth Vader lastly present down, with Obi-Wan cracking Vader’s masks, and what it meant to each of them.

In the course of the panel, which included not simply McGregor, Christensen and Blair, but in addition showrunner Deborah Chow and Indira Varma, every panel member performed a scene that meant so much to them. For McGregor it was that Leia scene. And for Christensen, it was the Vader scene. After it performed, he and McGregor obtained up and hugged one another earlier than speaking about what it meant to them.

“Inside the context of the saga it’s only a nice little bit of Star Wars,” Christensen mentioned. “And a very essential scene. Not simply the tragedy of the character Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader however the tragedy of the connection between Anakin and Obi-Wan, And Deborah, I can’t thanks sufficient. The best way it was scripted, the best way the entire thing got here collectively on the day…and a lot of why that scene works is Ewan’s efficiency and the heartbreak that you just expertise. And also you get to know the duality a bit bit higher and that battle of id. I’m simply very very pleased with that scene.”

“There’s something about the scene that surprised us both when we shot it,” McGregor added. “About how emotional it became. It didn’t necessarily feel that way on the page. It had something to do with us. We met each other a long time ago in Australia doing Episode II and [Hayden was] a younger, younger, younger actor and our lives have occurred between then and now. There was one thing concerning the expertise of working collectively once more as a result of it’s simply, like, we simply love one another you understand? And hadn’t seen one another for such a very long time. And the second of capturing it, all of that was alive within the scene and that’s lovely when that occurs. It’s such a beautiful expertise and positively that’s what it seems like up there.”

The take away of the panel, moreover how a lot everybody concerned in Obi-Wan Kenobi beloved it, was that whether or not followers preferred the sequence as an entire or not, there’s no denying there are moments throughout the sequence that undoubtedly obtained issues proper. Like Obi-Wan Kenobi defeating Darth Vader.

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