Ewan McGregor

Complex spoke with McGregor about what he loved about director Deborah Chow's vision for the story, where the character is during these days, and more.

So for the actor, it makes a big difference for us cause it makes us feel like we’re in the environment that we are trying to portray. We can build the worlds that we can actually stand in and feel their presence, and we can shoot against them. You see the crew rise to do their best work for her, and that’s a great sign of a great director. We can’t build some of the worlds that we see in Star Wars. It would be impossible because it’s a different galaxy. This is a very different time, and I think it’s quite a dark period of time. It’s a different side of the character and one McGregor seemed excited to dig into when he sat down for a junket interview with Complex recently.

Oh Sith, yeah! Obi-Wan Kenobi is in the house! If you're like us — and millions of Star Wars fans around the galaxy — you have already consumed the first ...

“I think it was pretty special,” she says. “It felt good, I have to say. As McGregor himself put it during our recent chat, “It feels different, but it’s still absolutely Star Wars.”

The Obi-Wan Kenobi stars sat down with EW at Star Wars Celebration to talk about their reunion — and how their appreciation for the prequels has shifted.

"The atmosphere on set was really electric that day," McGregor recalls. "Just seeing him again as Obi-Wan was such a thrilling sight," Christensen says. The two men say they drifted apart in the years since wrapping the films, but when they met again to start preparing for Obi-Wan Kenobi, it felt like no time had passed. After working on Obi-Wan Kenobi and refamiliarizing himself with the Star Wars fandom, though, he's found himself rethinking that view. "I feel like there was a sort of challenge to making the films. They're meant to bring joy and happiness to people, so it means a lot to get to witness that now to the degree that we do.

McGregor joined a panel for the 20th anniversary of the film at "Star Wars" Celebration with co-star Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett (and who played ...

And there is a story that he told me — during this fight in the rain where he had to do a jump, a flip over the top of you [indicating Morrison], like an aerial move over the top, and I don't do that kind of thing. McGregor joined a panel for the 20th anniversary of the film at "Star Wars" Celebration with co-star Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett (and who played Boba Fett in the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian" and "The Book of Boba Fett," who also plays a role in " Obi-Wan Kenobi"). The same Joel Edgerton who played (and is playing) Uncle Owen! McGregor said of Nash Edgerton, who is a filmmaker, actor, and director now: