So many Star Wars fans wish they could go back and be a fly on the wall when their favorite cinematic moments were filmed during the original trilogy, or even the prequel films. But the crew of the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi they happened to be nearby when Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) is reunited with his former apprentice, Anakin turned Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen), and they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see them engage in an epic lightsaber battle. I mean, who could?!
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Mark Hamill and his Return of the Jedi helix lightsaber reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip
During last weekend’s Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series panel was attended by Christensen and McGregor, plus the series director Deborah Chow, and they talked about the experience. Christensen explained:
“No, it was…a very special day, really. We, you know, had enough practice with a lightsaber that we were somehow able to enjoy it, and of course we want to do it all ourselves because, you know, being able to swing a lightsaber is a privilege.
These two actors certainly didn’t take it lightly. And it wasn’t as easy as the last time they did it! Chow noted that there are no stunt doubles in the scene, with McGregor doing “99% of everything himself” over the course of the series. For McGregor, filming the lightsaber sequence was something of a homecoming, even if he did have to work a little harder than usual:
“[It] it was thrilling to go to the fight gym to learn the fights. And then when we have them… in our bones or under our skin… they get faster and a little bit more frenetic and fun, you know. And then go back again, now like 20 years later, like[ever] many years later it was simply extraordinary. […] So everything… it was very carefully planned and then going back to the pre-, you know, going back to this flashback, it was just… it was the first thing we shot together.”
McGregor went on to explain that he couldn’t “rely on [his] youthful laziness of the first three films, saying that filming fights is “a bit like a boxing match”.
He succeeded though, and that was one lucky crew who got to see it all unfold in person. If I could get back to someone Star Wars moment in history and watch it unfold, which moment would you choose?
Via: /Movies
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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