before we begin special little trivia in the comments
if you can guess what movie my shirt is from
you win nothing today we're going to be continuing the episode 3 bonus dvd
uh we're gonna be going over becoming obi-wan kenobi with
the infamous ewan mcgregor let's begin
good morning mr mcgregor my name is lucas the first movie i ever saw in the
cinema could possibly have been star wars
episode four came with it was such um such a great degree of enthusiasm i
couldn't i can't i've been waiting for this for weeks
every morning i said i wonder if it's today i'll get to choose
we've never seen anybody with the same commitment that he gave
so we were thrilled are you mcgregor
i'm george i'm responsible for all this first criteria for casting obi-wan
kenobi was somebody who was complementary to alec guinness but not
just sort of copy it but create a an addition
to that character where are you going master
for a dream because he is younger he's in a completely different place and he's
a very active jedi so i needed somebody very physical
so he was a fantastic actor
and who could pick up the mannerisms and the essence of
the alec in his performance so this was like a dream come true to him to see the
final you know circle of this his early life
come to come to grips with playing this great
part it's a great net god used to fantasize about things like
this as a kid yeah in the original three alec guinness was
only in the first half of the first movie he cropped up
now and again as a shadowy blue guy but we only saw him for
half a thumb and and yet he created this iconic figure
that that i've grown up knowing you must do what you feel is right of course
and now to have you and mcgregor just doing the nuances of alec as
a young man the charm and the wit and the eye and just the
gentility of the guy and the strength you will be a jedi
i promise we see right from the start from episode one and that obi-wan
becomes this little boy anakin's mentor and master and the fact that he's
the disciplinarian and he's always telling anakin off and
anakin's always been cheeky to him but you know there is a father-son thing
there which is which is nice and i refer to him at the
end of the move this movie as being like brothers you know the first
half of this film you see an incredible bond and a real friendship
there so that there is something important that's lost
it's written in a way to be reminiscent of alec guinness and it's written in a
way that he becomes more and more the father
figure in the series patience use the force i think so as it
goes on the third film is much more like galactic
innocent is in the first film i always watch a lot of violet guinness before i
start i have done each time but this time i
got them to make up a looped reel of all his scenes but in this case
it's quite handy because i'm that bit closer to him now
you know than i was in episode one i'm this is my last shot at making it match
up making it alec guinness let go your conscious self
and act on instinct it's been more important this time than the others
to get up on alec guinness feel and look but this time we had to kind of
match it more physically as well so um i have done photoshop composite
where i try to take uh yuan and turn them into alec they
have almost identical eyes they have the same grooves here the
mouths are in exactly the right place they say this triangle is the most
important thing and it defines your character
and on the two people their characters it's they're that triangle exactly wow
so i think my hair is quite like alec guinnesses and
it's it's no longer a mullet which is which i sported beautifully in episode
two which i've now passed on to hayden he
now carries the mullet flame you know
through episode three is he wearing a big jedi mallet top man
but the continuity and alec guinness look is absolutely all over the place
that looks like someone else pretending to be alec guinness
yeah it looks like the whole hair piece has just
swiveled what happens not those ones halligan isn't very happy
sometimes his hair is here sometimes it's down here you know
there's not a great deal of continuity going on there his attempt to try
and emulate a great actor who has enormous amount of respect for
is one thing but what he's done in the process is he's brought
the greatness of that character to himself and his own performance
hello there hello there there is a phenomenon in star wars that was built
in when i started which is i was hiring actors
sometimes for 10 years and i was hiring them very young
so i was able to use their maturity over the years as part of the character
in the case of ewing he starts out as a padawan learner
and then he ends up as a very sophisticated jedi master
and as he's grown into the part he's gotten even better at the physical
aspects of the character you know between the films as they grew
older oh that was good one of the greatest
pleasures i get is is seeing that somebody can do
something even if they don't think they can do it
themselves but i think through doing this
and he's become way more physical and way more capable
than he ever was and that's one of the main reasons why i do it
is seeing somebody reach their maximum potential and then go on from that
can't wait till we get to that part i think ewan realizes that he
uh on this particular set was one of the older characters in the group
and therefore he was the big brother he was the one that was sort of controlling
the group in some cases because he had the most experience
which is very much in the nature of his character
but he would keep things lively and happy and not let people get too
dragged down by the day-to-day operations of the movie which is you
know what a big brother does
what also contributes greatly to the performance
is working with other actors and if you can work with a good receptive actor and
a giving actor who's on the other side of the camera
then your performance benefits greatly and working with euan
has been exactly like that what you'll notice
with you and is his total involvement in everything that he does
he's completely involved because straight into it
that's what it's all about i've still never met anyone like you and he's so
committed to what he does he is such a physical performer
he works incredibly hard he crafts his performances in a very
professional manner which is makes it much much easier for a director to work
with him and i think ewan is is right up there i mean he does
exactly what alec did on the first film and he brings even something greater to
the second trilogy so a couple things before we go on to
the next video here one thing i really like about ewan
mcgregor is that he's scottish and he has this accent
um obviously it's different than someone from britain
and he takes that and he morphs it into what alec guinness would sound like but
a younger version of that and he did his best to actually have his
have the same cadence have the same pronunciation of words and so on and so
forth and so it's not only you know just his
movements and his uh athleticism when it comes to you know
in revenge of the sith and all throughout the prequels but it's the
little details that go into all of this stuff that
a lot of casual fans or casual viewers even
or first-time viewers won't really notice
how much effort has gone into this from the actors and as i've said this many
times before hayden christensen tried to really
cater his cadence towards um james earl jones with the whole you know
the slow monotone yes my master
said it million times but it's true that's the way it is
and these actors have done a fantastic job trying to emulate that
and really go down to the nitty gritties of every single detail
that a lot of us don't really recognize don't really notice or you know pay
respect to so my hat's off to him what i really am
curious to see is how his portrayal of obi-wan kenobi is going to
be now with the kenobi show which is going to take place years after
revenge of the sith i think it's five years but don't quote
me on that now this obi-wan kenobi is going to be a
very different ob1 than we have ever seen this obi-wan
is going to be i think the most depressed and destroyed obi-wan
um that we've ever seen on film cartoons comics whatever clone wars
included this is the obi-wan where the toll and depression of order 66 and
what he has done to anakin and mustafar insidious and and
the jedi losing and everyone becoming extinct pretty much
is at its peak and this is where ewan mcgregor's acting
is really going to come out and we're going to see some real stuff here
because he's now going to show all the ptsd that obi-wan is going through
during this time this is not alec guinness obi-wan kenobi who
may or may not have understood the grim details of what
obi-wan has just gone through which ewan mcgregor
understands fully because he acted that scene acted all those scenes acted in
the prequels he knows the life he left behind and he
knows the life that he now leads and the life ahead of him so seeing all
that come together and i really wouldn't be surprised if we
see a very very different kenobi one who's not as optimistic um
as he always is as we know obi-wan to be that's something i'm very excited for
and i think it would be interesting if we see
someone come in there and help obi-wan when he's at his lowest of lows
i'm hoping it could be qui-gon's voice because we know in the book he doesn't
materialize to obi-wan until later on down the line near new
hope and since this takes place only years
after event of the sith well hey i guess we'll see what happens so
i'm very uh stoked for that i hope that uh it comes out sooner than later i know
you know everything going on they've delayed a lot of stuff but
um my hopes are high you know and i know that we're going to get it and i know
it's going to be kick-ass it's going to be great
as for the rumors regarding it's being one series long
i explained that in today's uh or yesterday's live stream
i think it could be good i think it could be bad it could be good in the
sense that they're really going to not waste any time on filler stuff and
they're really going to get down to all the minutia and the details
of obi-wan during this period the bad part is that well
of course i'd like to see more and you know go into more details and more
seasons and this and that but i think you know the way we look at
it is they were going to give us supposedly a
trilogy of obi-wan kenobi we can see that with the interview that
ewan mcgregor had with collider and we're kind of getting that you know
we're getting a six hour i think it's six episode uh six episodic
kind of like the prequels in the originals all put together
and uh in one season so it's like a six-hour kenobi movie
which is pretty rad i think it's pretty cool
let me know what you guys think let me know you where where you think the
shirts from and um see you in the next video we'll
go into the next one after this so may the force be with you see you
guys