Ewan McGregor now just trying to straight-up bully Disney into letting him be Obi-Wan again

 

This tendency was in firm evidence earlier this week, with McGregor making the rounds for his new movie The End Of Oak Street when some reporter made the mistake of asking him if he’d like to do more Obi-Wan one of these days. We have watched a lot of interviews of a lot of dead-eyed veteran performers waving off stuff like this by saying yeah, sure, they’d love to get the band back together some time. This is not what McGregor gives in this brief interview clip: Launching into an enthusiastic yes, he honestly sounds a little pissed off that Disney’s current nervousness around Star Wars properties means he’s being robbed of the ever-shrinking window between his current age of 55, and the 62 that Alec Guinness was when he filmed the original Star Wars. “I’m ready whenever they are,” McGregor told E! News “They just seem to not be ready, but I’m up for it.”

 

And while normal people may have watched the finale of Obi-Wan back in 2022 and thought, “Well, that’s nicely wrapped up, he’ll go and spend a decade hanging out with his old ghost teacher and then we’ll get A New Hope,” McGregor thinks that period is still full of non-chopping-heads-off-fish incident for everyone’s favorite retired Jedi master. Hilariously, the clip sees McGregor go on to not only lay out the whole ending of the Disney+ miniseries to the reporter, but drops—without a second’s hesitation—the name of the fictitious space camel he’s riding when last we saw him, remarking that “we go off, and I’m on the eopie… But what? Where are we going?” McGregor points out that Obi-Wan doesn’t appear again until Guinness takes off his hood in Star Wars (give or take at least one scene from one of the animated shows that we can think of off the top of our heads). “What happens between those two moments is what I want to do, spend the rest of my career doing, these stories… So come on, Disney!”