Ewan McGregor is Jelly
This was a painfully slow week in Star Wars news, with only two tidbits of "news". First of all, on the Late Show With David Letterman, in an interview with Oscar Isaac, Letterman said he had been given actual footage from the trailer to show on TV. After Isaac started to look terrified at the prospect of witnessing a leak, ending his career, a clip from the 1940s of some guy in a rocket suit came up. I guess it was supposed to be funny, but it spared Isaac the fate of having to witness a leak of The Force Awakens on live TV. That's how you know this has been one slow week.
The second piece of information came from Vanity Fair, which interviewed McGregor about his new movie. Naturally, the conversation turned to Star Wars. When asked about his possible involvement in The Force Awakens, he said he was "still waiting for the call". He also criticized the new lightsaber hilt, saying: "I was a bit dubious about the hilt on the new lightsaber. It's got a hilt now. It doesn't need a hilt. If you know how to handle a lightsaber, like we did, you don't need a hilt. That's just one thing I think they might have got wrong." Now, this comment might seem innocent (and with good reason) enough, but if you have been intensely following Star Wars news the past 2 years, 3 months, as I have, you will find a pattern with Ewan McGregor. Several times you find him being asked about the possibility of appearing in TFA, and most often he says they still haven't contacted him but he's open to the possibility of appearing. He's been asked these kind of question for over two years, and he just might be tired of it (Note: This, being my opinion, may or may not actually reflect what Hollywood superstar Ewan McGregor actually thinks about his lack of a role in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens [Produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions and distribute by Walt Disney Studios]. Take these words with a grain of salt. For more information please contact my lawyer.). He even got together with Mark Hamill and Samuel L. Jackson to see if he could audition for a character, only half joking. Recently, he told NYLON Guys Magazine that even though he would like to have a role in TFA, filming in tech heavy movies was like "watching paint dry." Sour grapes much? That's not including how practical the film production was, using far less green screen than the prequels. I think this is a very subtle case of jealousy. Because they got the sequels and he got the prequels. It was bad luck, indeed. He isn't a bad actor. He just didn't get to act during the prequels because of all the over reliance on technology. He might feel cheated out of a good Star Wars movie. But he'll keep trying.
The second piece of information came from Vanity Fair, which interviewed McGregor about his new movie. Naturally, the conversation turned to Star Wars. When asked about his possible involvement in The Force Awakens, he said he was "still waiting for the call". He also criticized the new lightsaber hilt, saying: "I was a bit dubious about the hilt on the new lightsaber. It's got a hilt now. It doesn't need a hilt. If you know how to handle a lightsaber, like we did, you don't need a hilt. That's just one thing I think they might have got wrong." Now, this comment might seem innocent (and with good reason) enough, but if you have been intensely following Star Wars news the past 2 years, 3 months, as I have, you will find a pattern with Ewan McGregor. Several times you find him being asked about the possibility of appearing in TFA, and most often he says they still haven't contacted him but he's open to the possibility of appearing. He's been asked these kind of question for over two years, and he just might be tired of it (Note: This, being my opinion, may or may not actually reflect what Hollywood superstar Ewan McGregor actually thinks about his lack of a role in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens [Produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions and distribute by Walt Disney Studios]. Take these words with a grain of salt. For more information please contact my lawyer.). He even got together with Mark Hamill and Samuel L. Jackson to see if he could audition for a character, only half joking. Recently, he told NYLON Guys Magazine that even though he would like to have a role in TFA, filming in tech heavy movies was like "watching paint dry." Sour grapes much? That's not including how practical the film production was, using far less green screen than the prequels. I think this is a very subtle case of jealousy. Because they got the sequels and he got the prequels. It was bad luck, indeed. He isn't a bad actor. He just didn't get to act during the prequels because of all the over reliance on technology. He might feel cheated out of a good Star Wars movie. But he'll keep trying.
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