Ewan McGregor and the Late Sir Alec Guiness Played Fitting Roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As it has come to light since the release of the film, Ewan McGregor and Sir Ale Guiness played a surprise cameo in The Force Awakens, reprising their shared character of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Well, their voices played a role, anyway. During Rey's force vision, the line "Rey? These are your first steps" comes from the weary old Jedi, and both actors essentially shared the line.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel live, McGregor talked about being called in to play the role, one that he last filled in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.
"I recorded a line for it. It was very late in the day. I'd been waiting for the call to come for two years!" McGregor joked. "Maybe they'd lost my agent's phone number! But I got a call just shortly before it was released from JJ [Abrams] saying, 'I'd love you to be in it. There's a sequence where we can use a voice, we hear Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice coming from the distant reaches of the forest.'
"The line is, 'Rey, these are your first steps.' But they got Alec Guinness to do 'Rey,' which is extraordinary because he's not alive anymore! They got a line of him as Obi-Wan Kenobi saying 'Afraid' and cut it so he says 'Rey,' then I say 'these are your first steps.'"
Originally, James Arnold Taylor, the voice of Ob-Wan in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, recorded the full line, before they realised they could work Guinness and McGregor into it. Taylor still voiced a couple of stormtroopers in the film. No one was left out, it seems.
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