![]() That’s what should have been talked about. She did an amazing job in quite a tricky character. So I feel very sad about that-and just really proud of her. If you thought the first season’s cast was fire, wait until you meet the Too Hot to Handle season 2 contestants, which includes a male. That’s not something that you just, like, sweep aside. “That’s tainted Moses’s experience of having played that role. And something has to be said about it,” McGregor said. “It’s very shocking when you realize racism like that exists. The attacks were so vile that McGregor returned to social media to declare support for Ingram and tell the bigots to knock it off. “But it was really interesting trying to do these characters at a different point in their lives.”Īn uglier brand of villainy showed itself when racist trolls launched a coordinated campaign against Reva Sevander/ the Third Sister, a Jedi-hunting character played by Moses Ingram. “We obviously had the challenge of trying to tell a story that’s in the middle of two trilogies and with characters everybody knows before and after,” Chow said. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities': Why Production Designer Tamara Deverell Feels 8 Directors Is EnoughĬhow relished the chance to tackle a different version of Obi-Wan Kenobi… and Darth Vader, with Hayden Christensen returning under the mask. Back then, he was known for edgy independent movies like Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting.” After he was done making the prequels, he figured he was “never going to look back.” “The prequels were quite difficult to make and quite difficult to deal with after they came out.”Īt the time it was the biggest project McGregor had ever made. (“Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” was released when he was only 28.) “There’s been a profound change in my relationship with ‘Star Wars’ and with the fans of ‘Star Wars’ and just in my feelings about it,” he said. To go into something that was more character-driven and was a limited series that had a beginning and end was pretty amazing.”įor McGregor, returning to the world of “Star Wars” forced him to reevaluate his entire relationship with the property. But it was exciting to take on a different kind of project. “I feel like I didn’t have much of a step out (from ‘The Mandalorian’). “Deborah took it and ran with it and made it what it became, which was amazing,” McGregor said.ĭeborah, of course, is Deborah Chow, who had directed some of the more memorable episodes of the first season of “The Mandalorian” and directed the entirety of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” “I had very good timing, honestly,” Chow said. ![]() It was then developed as a limited series that eventually found the right leader. “At that point, the story was very much a story about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker,” McGregor said. The project was first conceived as a movie to be directed by Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”). Rachel Weisz Says She Formed a ‘Brilliant Partnership’ With ‘Dead Ringers’ Twin Stand-In Kitty Hawthorne
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