Comedian-turned-buff Marvel superhero Kumail Najiani’s subsequent movie is Eternals, which lastly debuts on November 5. But the actor has already completed taking pictures his mysterious function in Obi-Wan Kenobi, the upcoming Star Wars TV collection starring Ewan MacGregor concerning the Jedi Knight’s time watching over Luke on Tatooine. And Nanjiani’s defined a significant problem of being a Star Wars actor that I’d by no means considered earlier than.

When USA Today requested him what it was prefer to make Obi-Wan, Nanjiani replied thusly:

“It was absolutely amazing. When you’re on set, you have to put out of your head that you’re in Star Wars, which is very hard to do because it really looks like you’re in Star Wars. I’m dressed like I’m in Star Wars. The guy who I’m talking to looks a lot like Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was my first job outside of quarantine: I got vaccinated, went right to set, and honestly had the best three months.”

I’ve by no means considered it earlier than, however this makes complete sense. If you develop up watching and loving and respiration Star Wars as a child, after which you find yourself forged in a Star Wars venture, it have to be extremely powerful to lose your self in your function. Imagine being 10 ft away from Darth Vader—who can be performed in Obi-Wan Kenobi by Hayden Christiansen, reprising his prequel function—and having to faux Darth Vader is an actual individual and not the long-lasting villain from Star Wars. Then enlarge that by Stormtroopers, autos, outfits, aliens, all of it. Star Wars has such an immense stronghold on popular culture that it might require an quantity of aid that… properly, that solely actually good actors can generate.

We don’t know Nanjiani’s function but, so there’s no purpose to suspect he really has a scene with Vader. But of all the brand new actors—Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Sung Kang (Fast and Furious), Maya Erskine (PEN15), Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit), Rupert Friend (Homeland), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Simone Kessell (Terra Nova), and Benny Safdie (Good Time)—certainly one of them absolutely has a scene with Vader. Why not Nanjiani? (Actually, we could have a candidate already.) Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse may also reprise their roles as Owen and Beru Lars from the prequels; if Mark Hamill could possibly be coaxed into doing one other motion-capture to make a creepy CG model of himself as a baby, it’ll be a Lars household reunion!

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s solely launch date is someday subsequent yr. 

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