May the Force be with Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen.The “Star Wars” prequel alums reprise their respective roles as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader for the upcoming Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” premiering May 27, and both actors set out to educate themselves on the modern “Star Wars” canon.“I watched [all of the ‘Star Wars’ films] from start to finish,” McGregor told Entertainment Weekly.
“All nine movies.
Just to get back in that world.” (EW noted “Solo” and “Rogue One” were excluded from McGregor’s watchlist.)McGregor added, “It was interesting to watch our films because I hadn’t seen them since they came out, not at all.
So it was cool to see and interesting to watch them and enjoy them without all of the noise that was around when they came out.”Yet co-star Christensen took his research one step further and binged animated shows “The Clone Wars” and “Rebels” in addition to all the live-action films.
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