'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Interviews with Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram & Deborah Chow

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"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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