Obi-Wan Kenobi star Rupert Friend reveals he hasn't watched Star Wars Rebels. Obi-Wan Kenobi, which premieres on Disney+ next month, sees Ewan McGregor returning as the titular Jedi Master alongside newcomers like Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, and Sung Kang. Friend is set to play The Grand Inquisitor, a force-sensitive dark side Jedi hunter who is tasked with pursuing Obi-Wan during his exile on the desert planet of Tatooine.
"I really wanted to honor the character as I saw him, and so I almost deliberately did not see the animated interpretation. Myself and Deb Chow and Dave Filoni and all of the guys really wanted to do something fresh that honored and was faithful to the spirit of the character without doing a kind of impression of anybody else's interpretation."
Pretty ignorant. But fine! I don’t want to sound rude but the character doesn’t belong to him. He should’ve done his research then made the role his own. Not cut out the research completely. We need similarities or may as well be a completely different character !
Doesn’t look like he worked on making his head narrower. What’s up with that?
I still don’t know why they couldn’t have at least gotten contacts for the character. That would’ve made the look a little better
till star war fans are roasting u online
Considering Obi Wan is years before Rebels, this is based as shit
That’s never been a bad decision. To completely reinterpret the character in your own way, rather than honor what came before for consistency. They should have asked Jason to come back
This is quoted incorrectly. He said he ALMOST deliberately didnt want to watch Rebels in order to bring something fresh to the character. He did, in fact, watch it
I don’t get y people do this
'Here's the canon to help you do it better' 'I don't needed, I have a vision' That's when you know he'll suck
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Completely missing the point of Star Wars lol
I actively don’t understand the thought process behind this whatsoever
That’s a STUPID reason not to research his characterization beforehand!! He was only in 10 episodes, was it so hard to study for 5 hours of tv?