Though Rupert Friend is playing the Grand Inquisitor on ObiWanKenobi, he made the decision not to watch Star Wars Rebels beforehand: 'I really wanted to honor the character as I saw him.'
Obi-Wan Kenobi star Rupert Friend reveals he hasn't watched Star Wars Rebels. Obi-Wan Kenobi, which premieres on Disney+ next month, sees Ewan McGregor returning as the titular Jedi Master alongside newcomers like Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, and Sung Kang. Friend is set to play The Grand Inquisitor, a force-sensitive dark side Jedi hunter who is tasked with pursuing Obi-Wan during his exile on the desert planet of Tatooine.
"I really wanted to honor the character as I saw him, and so I almost deliberately did not see the animated interpretation. Myself and Deb Chow and Dave Filoni and all of the guys really wanted to do something fresh that honored and was faithful to the spirit of the character without doing a kind of impression of anybody else's interpretation."
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