- So cute.
So I was standing like a foot away from a lion.
It was the most amazing experience making Moulin Rouge.
Yes, I hello.
I'm going to take five puppies home
with me today from this.
Boop. And it went roar.
I'm Ewan McGregor and I play Obi-wan Kenobi
in the new series on Disney Plus
and I'm on Buzzfeed today, playing with puppies.
Bring in the puppies.
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Hello. (indistinctive)
Oh my goodness.
Oh, oh my goodness, the most-
Hello little (indistinctive).
Hello.
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There wasn't a pitch as such,
because I wasn't like offered the,
they didn't send me a script and say,
would you play Obi-Wan Kenobi again? They-
(giggling)
I was asked if I would play Obi-Wan Kenobi
in every single interview that I ever did, for years.
I was asked, would you play,
would you do the sequel to Trainspotting?
And would you play Obi-Wan Kenobi again?
And I started saying yes to both.
So I made the Trainspotting sequel.
I just would say yes, I want to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again.
And then Disney called me in and said, look, is it true?
You're saying that you'd play Obi-Wan again, is it true?
And I said, yes,
let's see if there's a good story between-
(laughing)
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Not really.
We hadn't seen each other a lot over the years.
And the best thing about it,
was that it led to this moment,
playing with the puppies right now.
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I've got lots of lovely memories of it.
They're kind of odd because so much of it wasn't-
kisses- so much of it wasn't there.
It was a lot of green screen-
Oh, little kisses-
And blue screen and-
(chuckling)
Come on then, come on then. What was the question?
Favorite moments?
I don't know.
Oh my goodness, I can't take it.
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It was pretty amazing to put on the clothes again.
To feel, to dress as Obi-Wan Kenobi again,
after so long, was pretty amazing.
Yeah. The lights, we had a lot of light saber training.
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Yes. I'm gonna take five puppies home with me today,
from this experience.
(laughing)
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It was the most amazing experience
making Moulin Rouge, doing the musical sequences.
Doing the tango, man I'll never forget
doing the tango, where I'm all upset
and I got a big coat and I walked down
and all the dancers are doing the tango
and I walked through them
and the camera was on the crane
and the crane had to go out the door of the studio
because it was such a massive shot.
And they were pushing the crane back and back and back,
till it was outside the studio.
It was just the most amazing experience,
the music and the recording of the music
and the playing with Nicole and all those great actors.
It was just amazing.
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This show was oh, lovely.
Yes. You lovely little dog.
It was the same, I just watched all this-
I had sowed myself back into the Star Wars world
by watching all the movies,
by listening to Alec Guinness interviews,
by watching, I had Alec Guinness's dialogue from A New Hope,
just on a sound file, just all his lines.
He was very nice.
Ah, yes.
Fitness, did a lot of fitness training
because those fight sequences are really,
they're really hard to do
and it takes sometimes weeks to shoot a fight.
So I'm 50 years old now, 51 years old now.
So I had to get super fit before we started it.
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They're so fast.
I mean, Big Fish, I got to,
I did a scene with elephants
and I got to lean against an elephant.
I got to stand in the middle of a
big globe while the motorcycles went around my head,
I got to stand in front of a real lion.
And the lady, the lion trainer said,
she said to me when I went on, okay, just stay still.
Don't make any sudden movements
and don't do anything that might annoy the lion.
And I went, okay.
So I was standing like a foot away from a lion.
She had a riding crop that she held backwards.
She had the heavy end of it over there.
She was holding the thin end of it.
And when Tim Burton said action,
she bopped the lion on the head
with the heavy end of the crop, bop,
and it went roar.
And I thought, she told me not to annoy it
but she just bunked it on the head.
(indistinctive) puppy dogs.
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I'd like to play-
They're crazy, aren't they?
I mean, I don't know.
It have to be my character from the original,
maybe I play that green character
Harrison Ford shoots in the bar at the beginning.
Maybe I play him.
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So cute. Yes.
I loved working with Deborah.
She's the most amazing director, talent,
she's so good with the actors.
She's so good with knowing the Star Wars world, inside out.
Yes. Hello.
We were lucky to have her as our director for all of them.
So her sort of vision goes through the whole series,
which is really cool.
It would've been different, I think,
if we'd had a different director for each episode.
And as it is like one singular story,
that we sort of start, from start to finish,
it was great, it's her vision throughout.
Hi guys.
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I've been doing it a long time, I can't remember.
There's some characters you love to hate.
I think the first character I ever played,
in Shallow Grave, was such an, he's such a dick,
that it'd be fun to see him interact with
my priest character from them Angels and Demons.
Oh, easy.
It's been such a joy to be with these puppies today.
They are all rescue dogs, at Vanderpump Rescue, here in LA
and they're all available for adoption.
So if you've got a nice home to give these puppies,
that would be great to give them a ring.
And our show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on Disney Plus.
And I hope you all enjoy it very much.
Cheers.
Hello little puppy dog. I my God.
He-he-he.
Oh, you little sausages.
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