Vanity Fair: Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen & Moses Ingram Answer 7 Star Wars Questions
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Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Moses Ingram each answer the same seven questions about Star Wars. Anakin Skywalker (Christensen), Obi-Wan Kenobi (McGregor), and Reva (Ingram) will star in the Disney+ new miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi premiering on May 27th. How would they describe their characters? What was McGregor’s initial reaction when he was cast in Star Wars? Did the new series change their perception of the Star Wars universe?
Ewan McGregor serves as executive producer and stars as the title character, reprising his role from the Star Wars prequel trilogy alongside Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton, and Bonnie Piesse. Moses Ingram, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, and Sung Kang also star in the series. The project originated as a spin-off film to be written by Hossein Amini and directed by Stephen Daldry, but it was reworked as a limited series by Amini following the commercial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and the series’ subsequent pivot to television. McGregor was confirmed to be starring in August 2019, and Chow was hired to direct a month later. Production was scheduled to begin in July 2020, but the series was put on indefinite hold in January 2020 because Lucasfilm was unhappy with the series’ scripts. Harold was hired to rewrite the series in April 2020, and additional castings were announced in March 2021. Filming began by May 2021 in Los Angeles, using StageCraft video wall technology, and wrapped by September. Star Wars film composer John Williams wrote the main theme while Natalie Holt composed the rest of the score, making her the first woman to score a live-action Star Wars project.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is scheduled to premiere on May 27, 2022, and run for six episodes until June 22.
