With director Deborah Chow’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series arriving on Disney+ this week, I got to speak with Ewan McGregor about returning to the Star Wars universe. If you’ve been reading Collider for a long time, you might remember back in March of 2016, I asked McGregor if he was interested in playing Obi-Wan Kenobi again. When I brought it up, I was thinking it would be a movie, since Disney+ didn’t exist. He told me:

“I’d very much like to do one too. I think the story between Episode III and Episode IV, I think there’s a story there. I think that’s the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie, if there is one. The one that bridges my Obi-Wan Kenobi and Alec’s Obi-Wan Kenobi because there’s a—I don’t know how long he’s in the desert there, but it’s got to be twenty or thirty years.”

When I asked him if he’d met with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, McGregor replied:

“I’m not sure I’m at liberty to say, really, but I’m very interested in doing that. That would be great. Maybe there’s even a trilogy! (laughs)”

Shortly after posting the interview, I saw his quotes everywhere. It seemed like everyone was in agreement that Ewan McGregor coming back and playing Obi-Wan Kenobi was a fantastic idea. While we’ll never know if that interview helped make the Obi-Wan series happen, I’d like to think at least a few people at Lucasfilm saw it and noticed the positive interest from fandom.

Anyway, during my latest conversation with McGregor we talked about that interview, the chances of continuing the Obi-Wan Kenobi story beyond the six episodes in the series, why he was so impressed working with Deborah Chow, and how the series feels like one long movie.

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