Ewan McGregor has been promoting the release of his directorial debut, American Pastoral, and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter where he reflected on his time working on the Star Wars prequels. He spoke about reading the script for The Phantom Menace for the first time, working with Yoda, and the amount of blue screen that was used in the prequels. You can watch Ewan discuss the prequels below,
When he was asked to reflect on his first meeting with George Lucas, McGregor said,
I don’t remember. I remember my first, one I had the job, I
remember I had to go to studios in Watford, the north of London where
they shot all the Harry Potter movies. And it’s now like an attraction, I think (...) You can go there and see Harry Potter World but when we
worked there, it was an old-factory. It wasn’t really a film studio
yet. And they took over because it’s an enormous thing, Star Wars.
So they took over. I remember going there meeting George and being
allowed to read the script. So I had to read it in the producer’s
office like literally being almost locked in with the script, so that it
doesn’t get leaked and then being shown around the sets with George and
walking around and I remember we looked. There was a great big
submarine thing that I end up in with Liam and Jar Jar Binks. And then I
remember looking at these props, this art department guys sort of
carving this huge polystyrene thing into the submarine and there was a
cockpit. And I looked at it and I went will be go under? He looked at
me and went, “What?” I said will we go underwater with it. And he
looked at me like I was insane. [LAUGHTER] He said, “None of that it’s
real, you know.” And I went oh, yeah.
On the amount of blue screen used in the prequels, McGregor said,
Well, it was more and more blue screen as we went along. The first one I
remember more sets. And there was like an environment to work in and
as we got into episode two and three, they moved the shoot to Australia
and we were shooting in Australia in the studio there in Sydney. By
that point, it became more and more blue screen and green screen. I
thought it was a shame. You know, in the first one I worked with Yoda
like it was on set. Frank Oz I think was operating him with his team of
people. And I scenes with Yoda, it was amazing. It was like working
with a star that you have known all your life, you know. [LAUGHTER] I
worked with Yoda today and it was easy to work with him. He was like a
good actor. [LAUGHTER] And when he said cut, you know, you’d be really
in the moment with Yoda and then they would go cut and all the
puppeteers would stop. So Yoda would be like this, suddenly die. And
you’d always go are you OK? Are you OK? [LAUGHTER] And then by episode
two and three, he was, and R2D2 was the same way. It was computer
generated. It was a shame not to be sort of working with the real
thing.
McGregor also did a Twitter Q&A to promote American Pastoral, where he was asked who he would want to play his Jedi padawan should he make another Star Wars film (or two, or three),
— Ewan McGregor (@mcgregor_ewan) October 21, 2016
American Pastoral opens in theaters on October 21st, check out the trailer below,
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