Obi-Wan’s Owen Lars Actor Says He Is in the Dark on the Star Wars Show’s Story

Star Wars’ Joel Edgerton, who is soon set to reprise his role as Owen Lars in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, says that he is “totally in the dark” about the series plot. Edgerton is set to star in the upcoming Arthurian film The Green Knight, alongside The Personal History of David Copperfield’s Dev Patel. He also appeared in this year’s historical fantasy The Underground Railroad, currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

Australian actor Edgerton first joined the Star Wars franchise in 2002’s Attack of the Clones as Owen Lars, the step-brother of Anakin Skywalker and the future uncle who raises Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. Edgerton’s character later returned for the final moments of 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, when Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi entrusted infant Luke into the care of Owen and his wife, Beru. In the original version of that scene, which was first shot during the filming for Episode II because George Lucas did not wish to return to Tunisia, Obi-Wan handed baby Luke directly to Owen. Eventually, during the filming of Episode III, however, the scene was reshot with the child being given to Bonnie Maree Piesse’s Beru instead.

Now with Edgerton confirmed to be returning to the desert planet of Tatooine for the hotly anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series, fans are scrambling for even the slightest hint of what the show may have in store. In a recent interview with Comicbook.com, Edgerton was not letting much slip at all, even claiming not to have a complete understanding of the series story himself. Check out what he had to say below:

I’m unable to discuss [the series] and potentially totally as in the dark as you are. We all know the universe of Star Wars is on serious lockdown. Part of the reason for that is that people don’t want the stories too spoiled before they come out. The great thing about Star Wars fans are they are the creators of the next Star Wars universes and I think that whoever’s creating these things are creating them with the fans in mind, knowing that they hold the keys to that universe. To deviate too far from what you might expect could mean death by lightsaber and yet, to not introduce surprises within that mix is death to creativity.

Of course, Edgerton could know far more than he is letting on, but the secrecy requirements surrounding Star Wars productions are almost legendary. Even going as far back as the original trilogy, George Lucas famously kept the entire cast and crew in the dark about Darth Vader’s big reveal as Luke’s father in The Empire Strikes Back. Mark Hamill didn’t learn the truth until the actual day of filming. More recently, Jon Favreau also went to extraordinary lengths to keep Luke’s season 2 cameo in The Mandalorian under wraps.

Whether Edgerton is genuinely “in the dark” or not as to what the Obi-Wan Kenobi series has in store, it seems unlikely he will be able to reveal anything substantial until the series finally hits Disney+ in 2022. One thing fans will be hanging out to see, however, is how Edgerton’s Owen develops his apparent distaste for the “wizard” he dismissively calls “nothing but a crazy old man” in Episode IV.

Source: Comicbook.com

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