25 years ago, George Lucas offered his fans a new journey into the galaxy, far from the Star Wars saga, and offered them to discover the origins of their favorite characters through three new episodes.
Now largely rehabilitated, this prelogue met with sometimes mixed reception upon its release. A feud that the director mentioned during a recent visit to Cannes, and which centered mainly on the character of Jar Jar Binks. This clumsy and clumsy gungan, created for the humorous appeal of the film and (for the first time in the history of cinema) the actor who played the role in motion, in fact, concentrated almost all the anger of the fans.
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Actor Ahmed Best, who played this character, suffered a lot from this cold and sometimes violent reception, as he recently said. People at the microphone.
“We were in our bubble while filming.”
“We were in a bubble while filming”He confided before turning back to the disappointment that issuing the ghostly threat represented to him.
“So when I got out of that bubble, I told myself that everyone would appreciate what we did, because if people felt the same way we did when we were creating. , it would be incredible. But there were already some kind of preconceived ideas and this hate on the internet that was already starting to bubble up. People were talking about it even before the release of the film.”
Ahmed Best continued his story by describing the helplessness and loneliness he found himself in at that time. Indeed, as the first actor to really experiment with motion capture, he really had no colleagues to share his painful experience with.
“There was really no one to help me.”
“It was really not easy, I was very young, I was 26 years old. (…) All these years you think that you have risen to the top, you have reached the highest level, and then suddenly people pull the rug from under you. I wondered what would happen to me next. My career ended where it began. I didn’t know what to do and unfortunately no one could really help me because my position was unique. This has never happened in history. “
As he has already said, the actor once again explained that at that time in his life, with all the criticism that was hurled at his performance and Jar Jar, he thought the worst.
“I didn’t want to hurt my family, so it was something bigger than me that brought me back. I was still lost. I still couldn’t find my balance and I still felt all this injustice.”– he said, always People at the microphoneHe previously explained that he had completed his recovery and retired from acting for good to become a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
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