A plastic baby, an animal that doesn’t exist and a green screen: It was the ‘worst Star Wars moment’ for Ewan McGregor

When you’re an actor, shooting on green screen is sometimes a tough exercise. You have to use your imagination as much as possible to forget that there is nothing around you and you shoot in a completely empty warehouse, which turns into a fantastic and never-before-seen world once you go through the special effects.

And on the set of the Star Wars prequel, Ewan McGregor paid the price!

A guest on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2011, the Scottish actor was asked about the making of the Star Wars prequel, which was one of the first films to rely heavily on the use of green screen. With no set, no props, the actor had a hard time understanding what he was doing!

The example he uses occurs at the end of Revenge of the Sith, Episode III of the saga. Obi-Wan arrives on Tatooine on Eop’s back to deliver baby Luke, the son of Anakin and Padme, to the people who will raise him: Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. Except that the plastic baby is carrying, that the creature is an immovable green cardboard, Tatooine is a warehouse painted green, and that it has to look at the two suns that should be in the sky, but also a green background!

So the actor describes each step of this very awkward scene, getting Luke’s adoptive father’s name wrong (“Uncle Peru, no, it’s Aunt Peru!”) and says that Lucas asks to look at the “moons” when it is, of course, Tatooine’s two suns. This shows that the actors of our favorite sagas are sometimes less known than their fans.

When we imagine that this perfect moment of solitude on the green screen happened to Ewan McGregor in front of his close friends, whom he sold that he was going to film that day. “important scene” With Star Wars, we hear more about the discomfort he may have experienced on set, and which he clearly still feels almost a decade later!