Ewan McGregor Sees Star Wars Prequel Hate Shifting

Next week marks the 20-12 months anniversary of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. For many, it’s unequivocally the worst Star Wars movie. However, in recent times, that opinion has begun to shift, as individuals who noticed Clones at a younger age are now realizing they’ve a sure nostalgia for it. And the star of a very prequel-based present that’s on the horizon has taken discover.

Speaking to the press recently, Obi-Wan Kenobi himself, Ewan McGregor, stated he’s discovered it extremely gratifying and rewarding up to now a number of years to see the prequel movies, which have been critically lambasted, start to get some love.

“It was an odd experience to make those movies,” McGregor stated to a youthful journalist. “When you step into this world it’s a big deal. It’s scary. And then those films were critically not liked very much. Or they weren’t written very nicely about by the critics. But what we didn’t hear at the time was people your age, your generation. We meet those people now who really love our films, you know. But it’s taken us 15 years to hear that. And it’s so nice. It’s really nice. It’s changed my outlook. My relationship with Star Wars is different because of that.”

McGregor continued talking about how his expertise making the flicks was so totally different from the preliminary response—and what it was like to revisit them in preparation for Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which is out later this month. “We put our heart and soul into [the prequels],” McGregor stated. “And they were difficult to make because the second one, the third one, there was so much green screen and the blue screen. Because George [Lucas] was pushing into this new realm that he had designed. He was responsible for ILM and he wanted to max out that technology. But that meant for us that we were very much on blue screens and green screens. And it was hard work. And to do that and be passionate about it and then for the films not to be very well received was really tough. So it’s really lovely to have this new relationship with them now. And then watching them again, I hadn’t seen them since they came out, in preparation for this show…was really cool. I like them. Episode three is really good. It’s a really good movie.”

McGregor’s prequel and Obi-Wan Kenobi co-star, Hayden Christensen, who was standing subsequent to him as he stated that, agreed. “It’s a phenomenal film,” he stated. “It’s non-stop action.”

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McGregor is true, after all. When you see a movie as a youngster and like it, you retain nostalgia in your coronary heart for it even after you develop up. Watching that film once more makes you are feeling such as you did once you first noticed it. For me personally, a film like that’s The Goonies. I watched it a whole bunch of occasions rising up and nonetheless like it. But perspective is every part; when you confirmed The Goonies at this time to an grownup who’s by no means seen it earlier than, they’re more likely to say it’s horrible. It simply takes a couple of a long time to vary a consensus utterly. And the time has, apparently, come for the Star Wars prequels.

Where do you stand on the Star Wars prequels? Is there reverence in your coronary heart for them? Is it disdain? A little bit of each? Let us know under.

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