Actor Ewan McGregor reveals what his first encounter with Darth Vader was like on the set of the Kenobi series.
One of the great attractions of watching the series Kenobi will be the appearance of Darth Vaderone of the most beloved characters of starwars. Now the actor Ewan McGregor He wanted to reveal some details of the shooting.
In a recent interview, Ewan McGregor revealed that: “I never met Darth Vader. He had rehearsed the scene with Vader, but not with his helmet on or anything like that. When we came to do the scene, when they were yelling Action! He had to come up behind me. I turned around, and Darth fucking Vader was coming at me. It was like he was six years old again. He had never acted in Vader’s helmet. He had never looked him in the eye ».
“It scared the hell out of me. I’m not kidding. She gave me a proper jolt of utter fear. I thought: Oh my God, that’s not acting. This is real. I’m really scared right now. And the same would happen. with the Stormtroopers. He had worked with Clone Troopers before, but a lot of them were CGI. I never worked with Stormtroopers and, again, I was seven years old again. Because when you go up against a Stormtrooper, with a blaster, it’s like: Bloody hell.”
“It’s like real childhood memories of being scared. That’s how deep it is in us.” concluded Ewan McGregor. “I’ve been acting for 30 years and I’ve never really felt scared when I act scared. But I had moments in this that were really scary. It is fun”.
Here we leave the trailer, to review it once again:
We can see everything he has prepared Ewan McGregor and his confrontation with Darth Vader in the series Kenobi from Disney Plus on May 27, 2022. Since the entire Star Wars saga is on this streaming platform.