For years it seemed Ewan McGregor couldn’t get out of an interview without being asked about possibly playing Obi-Wan Kenobi again, and the actor always had to give a generic response about how he’d love to play the role again, but he knew nothing about whether that might happen or not.
We know now that McGregor had been in talks to reprise the role of Obi-Wan basically the entire time.
Since the actor couldn’t talk about it, it led to speculation that perhaps Disney would actually cast somebody else in the role, which McGregor tells THR he found somewhat humiliating, saying…