Released on Disney+ since last Friday, the series Obi-Wan Kenobi puts actor Ewan McGregor back in the costume of the famous Jedi now exiled on Tatooine. At the center of the series, the actor even sees his daughter appear during a cameo during episode 2.
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An ambitious series
Highly anticipated and ambitious, to In more ways than one, the LucasfilmObi-Wan Kenobi series is now available on Disney+. The first two episodes of a 6-part series that has been released. thought and produced as a film have been put online on Friday. The opportunity to immerse yourself in the character embodied; by Ewan McGregor from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, now in exile on Tatooine following a the Jedi purge orchestrated by Darth Sidious in Revenge of the Sith, and intended to protect the young Luke Skywalker.
A 20-year chronological gap between the & eacute; episode 3 and A New Hopeavailable to Disney to develop its series. For many, the return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan is one of the show’s great strengths. A character that sticks to him; the skin and which survived while the prelogy suffered the wrath of the critics. This Obi-Wan has therefore aged, has lost his ardor of yesteryear, but he is also darker and bruised by the eradication of the Jedi and Anakin Skywalker’s shift towards the side Dark Force.
An unexpected cameo
If the first episode takes place on Tatooine and Alderaan, in which the context gradually settles, allowing fans to familiarize themselves with new and old characters, the end and the second episode fit more into The heart of the matter. Indeed, Obi-Wan is mandated to by Bail Organa so that he goes to agrave; the rescue of young Leia, captured by space pirates and taken to Daiyu.
There, he searches for clues, and stumbles upon a pink-haired spice runner named Tetha Grig. It turns out that the actress is none other than the daughter of Ewan McGregor in real life: Esther Rose McGregor. When this is learned, the scene between the two characters is more tragic. As he asks her for information about her missing daughter (in order to hide the importance of the mission), the young girl replies that he will probably never see her again, as no one can escape from here. She goes on to tell him that she was also “someone’s”‘s daughter before, before offering him what appears to be a drug so he can forget about her. girl.
This is not the first time that a cameo has slipped into the universe of the galaxy very far away. Georges Lucas himself made a brief appearance in the third episode, Revenge of the Sith, as Baron Notluwiski Papanoida. Just like Warwick Davis (who reprises his role as Willow, whose trailer for the future Lucasfilm series was released a few days ago), who has several to choose from. its active. The immense composer of the saga’s soundtrack also makes a furtive appearance, in Babu Frik’s workshop in The Rise of Skywalker.
Knowing the taste of easter eggs at Disney, no doubt we will see other cameos, perhaps in the next episodes of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi, or in season 3 of The Mandalorian.