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Watch the legendary actor Alec Guiness talk about his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars movie from 1977. Learn how he approached the character, what he thought of the script and the ...
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27 de may. de 2022 · By the time Alec Guinness was offered $150,000 in January 1976 ($762,000 today) to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars — a character revived by Ewan McGregor in subsequent films and now in the...
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"When I was casting the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi for Star Wars, I was looking for an actor who brought a certain authority to the role. Someone who was powerful yet gentle and that came across in Alec as a person and as an actor."
―George Lucas on Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original trilogy.
Besides his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guinness won acclaim for many roles on live theater, television, and film, including his Academy Award-winning role as Lt. Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was honored with a knighthood in 1959, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1980.
Original trilogy
Alec Guinness was born on April 2, 1914. During the casting process for the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, director George Lucas was looking for an actor who brought a certain authority to the role and could be powerful and gentle. Lucas found these qualities in Guinness, who joined the cast because of the film's sense of moral good and the studio's doubling of his initial salary offer. Lucas wanted Kenobi to die, however, Guinness objected to his character's death. Lucas then explained that Kenobi would have little to do after the Millennium Falcon escaped the Death Star, which conviced Guinness to allow the death. Guinness was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. He reprised his role as a force ghost in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Guinness' contract gave him 2.25% of the director's cut. He viewed A New Hope as "fairy-tale rubbish," and he disliked being associated with the role of Kenobi. Despite this, Brian Blessed, an actor who met Guinness many times, stated that Guinness was "madly in love" with the Star Wars films.
Legacy
"I always have the acting challenge of playing a younger Alec Guinness, and that's my great joy in doing this, is to feel like I'm moving towards becoming Alec Guinness, you know. That's always where I'm trying to do." ―Ewan McGregor discussing playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Obi-Wan Kenobi On August 5, 2000, Guinness died from liver cancer at King Edward VII Hospital in England. When Ewan McGregor played Kenobi in the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, he came up with the idea for he and the crew to look at pictures of Guinness in A New Hope to bridge the gap between the two actors. Also, his hair and beard were grayed a little bit to get closer to Guinness's portrayal. Edited audio of Guinness saying the word "afraid" was used for Kenobi to say "Rey" in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. When Joby Harold was writing the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series, he wanted to understand the story of what happened to Kenobi between McGregor and Guinness' portrayal of him. When McGregor was playing Kenobi, he made it seem like the character would grow up to be Guinness by trying to sound and feel like Guinness, but he didn't want to do an impersonation. To relearn his Kenobi voice, McGregor listened to a sound file that has all of Guinness' lines from A New Hope. McGregor imagined how Guinness would say the lines before filming a scene.
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•Star Wars: Episode IV •••"Anthony Daniels: Remembering That Galaxy Far, Far Away" — The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 1
•"Mark Hamill: 10 Years Later" — The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 3
•Star Wars Insider 51
•Sir Alec Guinness Remembered on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
•"Star Wars: Revenge of the Quiz" — Star Wars Insider 148
1.This Week! in Star Wars Star Wars: The High Republic Characters Revealed, Your Cute Pets, and more! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
2.Sir Alec Guinness Remembered on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
4.Alec Guinness, Reluctant Intergalactic Icon on cancertoday (archived from the original on July 22, 2020)
5.Awards Database on awardsdatabase.oscars.org (content obsolete and backup link not available)
7.Star Wars: Episode V 8.Star Wars: Episode VI 9.Boss Nass Warned George Lucas about Jar Jar Binks (Brian Blessed Interview) on the The Geeknd [Jamie Stangroom] YouTube channel (backup link)
10.Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen & Moses Ingram Answer 7 Star Wars Questions | Vanity Fair on the Vanity Fair YouTube channel (backup link)
•Alec Guinness on Wikipedia
•Alec Guinness at the Internet Movie Database
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22 de jun. de 2022 · Alec Guinness, con las mismas dudas de Mifune, no quería aceptar. Pero cuando vio lo que ocurría con Obi-Wan en la película aceptó, pensando que sería un pequeño rol más.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi (también conocida como Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi) es una miniserie de televisión estadounidense, perteneciente al género de aventura espacial y space opera, producida por Lucasfilm para el servicio de streaming Disney+ .
Obi-Wan is portrayed by Alec Guinness in the original trilogy and by Ewan McGregor in the prequel films. McGregor also plays the character in the television series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Guinness's performance in Star Wars (1977) earned him the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best ...
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