Ewan McGregor's acting?

What did the mature Jedi master who Darth Vader struck down dead in Star Wars think about the movies? Guiness held nothing back in an interview in Talk magazine. "I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo," he told interviewer Fintan O'Toole.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/290583/obi_wan_kenobi_hated_star_wars.html

 

That was Ewan four years ago.

This is Ewan now.

 

I love that video, I love how he can actually twirl it, and use it properly. Nice one Ewan!

 

Love that video. Ewan is aging gracefully and looks like Obi-Wan in the process

Wasn't it Anakin's lightsaber he took though?

 

Well considering it was out of 3, he probaby just went for the one that resembled Obi-Wan's the most, which was Anakin's. Just like when he took Anakin's lightsabler in ROTS :')

 

Go watch Empire of Dreams; that's all I'll say about how much Guinness appreciated the film.

 

Mind to post the whole interview, and what did Fintan asked him for him to say that? Because quotes can be taken out of context. Besides, as said above, there is proof of otherwise.

 

Go and learn to behave.

I found that quote on the internet but I can't provide a complete interview. This quote appears on several websites, for example:
http://www.virginmedia.com/movies/features/20-things-you-never-knew-about-star-wars.php?page=4

Most "negative" quotes are taken out of context. The media just wants to be negativ. Especially internet-"media". Negativity sells.

 

Here here!

 

Folks, I wouldn't be too distressed about this. Sir Alec was one of the preeminent actors in the world who suddenly found himself permanently tethered to a children's film. Although he probably should have handled the situation with more grace, try to imagine being greeted with the thousandth "May the Force be with you!" while rehearsing Richard III. You're gonna snap at some point.

 

Some of Alec's quotes regarding the tiresome needs of fans are absolutely priceless. That said, if any Star Wars actor reduced my child to tears simply for asking for the adoration of the film to be indulged if only for a moment then they'd get a swift smack across the chops.

 

Just holding myself to the same non-standard you're setting for yourself by providing a quote you can't locate an actual source for.

 

Oh, I remember that story. That mother should have knocked Sir Alec right to the ground, Darth Maul-style.

BTW, does anyone recall an article from a few years back wherein McGregor purportedly told someone in a children's hospital that he regretted making the Prequels? Cheese on rice, talk about a lack of decorum!

 

I'd not heard about that. But I did see Ewan on the Graham Norton show the other night fighting with a toy lightsabre. He didn't look too regretful to me...

 

I did hear about that alleged quote and frankly, I think it was a baldfaced LIE, as in somebody made it up. Ewan was quoted as saying things that come across on paper as graceless but I have had to wonder if they're out of context or they come from Ewan being asked/told by whomever's interviewing him just how much everybody hates those awful Jar Jar movies and how could he stand working for a d-bag like George Lucas. But whatever else you might think about Ewan as a person, I know the man has a huge heart for kids and there is just no way in hell he'd ever say that to a terminally-ill child.

I've also suspected Guinness's tale about the kid who'd seen ANH a hundred times might be a bit of a fish story. Why hasn't this kid come forward in all of these years? I'll eat my words if he ever does come forward, but maybe this was just Guinness's way of expressing his concern about the obsession Star Wars left in its wake. He did say that people actually wrote him letters asking him to help them save their marriages and stuff.

--MissPadme

 

I second that. One of the most well-known "truths" for SW fans, for a long time, was that Guinness had talked Lucas into killing Obi-Wan off in the first film. Turned out it wasn't so, and that Lucas in fact had to talk the actor into going along with the idea. Myths easily grow dark in Lucas' disfavour.

 

Also agree, to a certain extent. Could be an exaggeration, could be completely made up. I've no doubt that he encountered some bizarre stuff, though. A child who'd seen SW 100 times would have been at the less extreme end of the scale.

EDIT: Turns out I was wrong, the kid was reduced to tears after all in Guinness' account:

I'd always heard the story without the bit at the end.

 

Let the kid come forth to purge himself of the trauma.

 

I think he runs a website called 'Red Letter Media'.

 

There's a rumor that the kid was actually Tracy Morgan:

...but it's never been confirmed.

 

I don't consider Qui-Gon Jinn and Jar-Jar Binks as "less significant" in TPM. As far as I'm concerned, they were a lot more significant than Obi-Wan.

 

Wow he's hot. Hasn't lost his sabre swing and still as georgous as ever.

 

I did, just reread my posts.
Another source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/290583/obi_wan_kenobi_hated_star_wars.html