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From IMDB:

Scottish screen hunk Ewan McGregor is frightened by Star Wars fans and their devoted fervor for the sci-fi saga. The 34-year-old actor, who plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, found working on the three prequel Star Wars movies uninspiring as they focused more on special effects than performance - but he is even less enthusiastic about the films' die hard enthusiasts. He says, "There's this huge following, which is weird. They have big meets and conventions, and I find it all a bit frightening. Once this guy met me at a stage door when I was doing a play in London. The guy yelled, 'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.' It's just so weird, it really is."

 

[btrboyev]

understandable..but he has also claimed to be a huge fan.

 

[SD-Ness]

:lol

 

[explodet]

"Welcome to my world."

 

[Fifty]

From IMDB:

Once this guy met me at a stage door when I was doing a play in London. The guy yelled, 'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.'

:lol

 

[demon]

Hey, Star Wars fans are good people.

For me to poop on.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

For me to poop on.

This really calls for things like bolding, exclamation marks, and perhaps further capitalization. Way too laid-back sounding otherwise.

 

[Macam]

Yeah, I think we're all painfully aware of this....and the LOTR series is going the same route.

 

[tedtropy]

'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.'

Hah, well I bet that guy went home crying, not that he didn't need it...

 

[ManaByte]

McGregor is awesome. He won't sign things for eBayers and sellers. If someone asks him to sign something without personalizing it, he'll refuse.

 

[hXc_thugg]

Ewan McGregor is the champion of my heart.

 

[Macam]

McGregor is awesome. He won't sign things for eBayers and sellers. If someone asks him to sign something without personalizing it, he'll refuse.

The way it should be. I don't take much stock in autographs in the first place, but I really don't much see the point of autographed materials, least of all if you didn't get it signed in person.

 

[Dante]

understandable..but he has also claimed to be a huge fan.

until he saw the prequels

 

[Scrow]

Once this guy met me at a stage door when I was doing a play in London. The guy yelled, 'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.' It's just so weird, it really is."

:lol :lol :lol

Ewan rocks. Hell, I'm a Star Wars fan and I'm afraid of my own kind so i can't imagine what it must be like for Ewan.

Yeah, I think we're all painfully aware of this....and the LOTR series is going the same route.

umm... wtf are you talking about?

 

[dskillzhtown]

He said this about 2 years ago. Actually he said the fans drive him to drink at CK levels.

 

[DrForester]

I find it hard to beleive that he wasn't warned when he signed up.

I know Star Trek actors have been given "The Fandom Talk" before they sign their contracts.

 

[ScientificNinja]

Ewan McGregor is awesome. If there's a shred of credibility with this CG wank-fest of a trilogy, it's in that bloody annoying cist that's staring at me from between Ewan McGregor's eyes.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

Ewan McGregor is awesome. If there's a shred of credibility with this CG wank-fest of a trilogy, it's in that bloody annoying cist that's staring at me from between Ewan McGregor's eyes.

:lol awesome post

 

[Link]

Didn't Alec Guinness hate Star Wars and its fans too?

 

[siege]

Didn't Alec Guinness hate Star Wars and its fans too?

Yep.

 

[ManaByte]

Didn't Alec Guinness hate Star Wars and its fans too?

He didn't hate Star Wars, just the fans. He liked the movies and playing the mentor figure in a mythic fantasy.

 

[CrystalGemini]

I <3 Ewan McGregor.

 

[-=DoAvl=-]

Ewan McGregor is awesome. If there's a shred of credibility with this CG wank-fest of a trilogy, it's in that bloody annoying cist that's staring at me from between Ewan McGregor's eyes.

Wanker is such an aussie word. I love it.

 

[Mr Mike]

Breaking news from theforce.net:

OBI-WAN KENOBI SCARED OF DIE HARD FANS

Jedi Master hides out in secluded Tattooine getaway - Suspected Absence of 20 years - "He went thatta way!" said witness Beru Lars

 

[mrkgoo]

the fandom menace indeed.

 

[evil ways]

umm... wtf are you talking about?

Ever since Fellowship of the Ring, the diehard LOTR fans have become as geeky and obssesed, if not more than Star Wars zealots. They supposedly have Fellowship gatherings where they dress up and talk to eachother like they were actual people from that books/movies. In other words, imagine that South Park episode with the porn video and you'll get a good idea of what goes around with LOTR fandom, except these are 30-40 adults.

I don't blame Ewan McGregor for being scared or disgusted at some of the rabid fans, cause it's just lame, especially at the conventions where you get people asking actors stupid questions like they're those characters in real life.

 

[DarienA]

"...and you think Star Wars fans are weird? Buddy the stories I could tell you about Star Trek fans......."

 

[madara]

It must be that role. Guiness had same problem not relating to Star Wars at all.

 

[Cathcart]

It sounds like someone took an Alec Guinness story and just changed the name to McGregor. I wonder if this is a true story. I find it hard to believe that Ewan didn't know about Star Wars fans.

He didn't hate Star Wars, just the fans. He liked the movies and playing the mentor figure in a mythic fantasy.

I don't know what the truth is with this, but I've read many times that he hated the movies. Here's a quick link that I found without much effort, but I've read this kind of stuff from several sources:

Sir Alec Guinness hated Star Wars so much he talked George Lucas into killing the Obi-Wan Kenobi character, he revealed in a recent interview.

Guinness, one of the grand figures of British film with more than 60 cinematic appearances to his credit, told the new chatter magazine Talk that he convinced series creator Lucas that Kenobi would be a more effective mystical mentor if he appeared to Luke as a ghost. Lucas liked the idea, rewriting the first film to include the Jedi Knight's death in combat with former protégé Darth Vader.

However, Guinness said he had less purely artistic goals at heart.

"What I didn't tell him was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo," he told Talk interviewer Fintan O'Toole.

http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/guinness.html

My favorite Guinness story is the one where a 12 year old tells Obi that he's watched the movies like 50 times and Guinness tells him that that's horrible and that he must promise to never watch the movies again. The kid ran off crying. Again, not sure how true it is, but I've read it more than once.

 

[Outcast2004]

From IMDB:

Scottish screen hunk Ewan McGregor is frightened by Star Wars fans and their devoted fervor for the sci-fi saga. The 34-year-old actor, who plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, found working on the three prequel Star Wars movies uninspiring as they focused more on special effects than performance - but he is even less enthusiastic about the films' die hard enthusiasts. He says, "There's this huge following, which is weird. They have big meets and conventions, and I find it all a bit frightening. Once this guy met me at a stage door when I was doing a play in London. The guy yelled, 'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.' It's just so weird, it really is."

and in other news, the sky is blue, water is wet..

Um DUH of course Star Wars freaks are weird.... it takes an odd mindset to go get dressed in costume for a movie.

It's entertainment, not something you devote YOUR LIFE to.

 

[segasonic]

I used to be a Star Wars fan...




...and then Episode 1 came out

 

[FortNinety]

I used to be a Star Wars fan...




...and then Episode 1 came out

Like many of us actually...

 

[belgurdo]

I used to be a Star Wars fan...




...and then Episode 1 came out

I thought like this too until I realized that the OT had as much shitty pacing and dialogue as the prequels, so I stopped caring about that aspect of the series and watched for the cool action bits

 

[borghe]

if you guys were that fickle then you were never fans to begin with. get it straight.

 

[Prince of Space]

Yeah, I was always under the impression that Guinness wanted nothing more to do with Star Wars -- that his biggest fear was being remembered only as Obi-Wan Kenobi when he'd had so many other (and better) roles.

 

[FortNinety]

Yeah, I was always under the impression that Guinness wanted nothing more to do with Star Wars -- that his biggest fear was being remembered only as Obi-Wan Kenobi when he'd had so many other (and better) roles.

Yeah, he played a pretty mean Hitler in The Last Ten Days.

 

[TheDuce22]

Maybe Lucas has purposely been trying to destroy his franchise in order to save these sick people. If the first two movies didnt stop them, nothing will.