Ewan McGregor Is "Pretty Sure" He'll Get to Play Obi-Wan Kenobi Again in a STAR WARS Project
Obi-Wan Kenobi star Ewan McGregor has been very vocal about wanting to do another season of the Star Wars series. But, even if that doesn’t happen, the actor is "pretty sure" that he will have the opportunity to play the Jedi Master again in some way, shape, or form.
During a recent interview with LADbible, McGregor addressed Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2 saying that he's yet to hear from the studio about any plans, saying:
"The truth is I've talked about having to cover for doing the Obi-Wan season for years, I had to lie about that and I'm not lying about this now. I don't know. There's been no phone call to me from Lucasfilm, or Disney saying, 'Let's do another one.' Obi-Wan was made as a limited series and it's out and people like it, which I'm very, very pleased about."
The series was met with mixed reactions, and I thought it could’ve been so much better. I thought there was a waste of a great story there. Regardless, I wouldn’t mind seeing McGregor back as Obi-Wan again one day. He went on to say:
"I love doing it. I hope we get a chance to do another one and I'm sure we will. I'm pretty sure, you know. I've got a few years yet before I'm the same age as Alec Guinness was in A New Hope. So there's time to tell more stories in there."
Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow confirmed McGregor has been pushing hard for a second season and he’s even pitched ideas for the story.
"You always think you're going to end a series like this in some magnificent way, but instead you end up in a parking lot with second unit and hardly anybody there. It's always so anticlimactic, but as Ewan and I finished our very last shot on second unit and I was literally taking off my headphones, he was already pitching me ideas for season two. There's another 10 years with plenty of stories, and I don't think it's off the board. It is a 'never say never' situation, but we really did conceive this to be a limited series."
It’ll be interesting to see what happens next with Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars universe. There are certainly more stories to tell, they just need a good creative team to develop those stories!