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Joel Edgerton on Star Wars: “It’s worth listening to fans”

July 5, 2024 by EJ Moreno

Uncle Owen doesn’t just give Luke Skywalker great advice; the actor behind the Star Wars character also wants to help the franchise.

With Joel Edgerton wrapping up the sci-fi series Dark Matter, he’s got time to chat about what’s going on in Hollywood and during an interview with The Playlist about his career, his work on the Star Wars prequels (and recent Obi-Wan series) became the point of conversation. As the franchise is currently in flux, the actor offered some input on how to get things together.

“There are Star Wars fans who could write a better Star Wars TV show than you could imagine because they’ve studied it like the Bible, and they’ve imagined all the threads, and they know the histories of all the characters. I think it’s worth listening to fans because someone out there is going to go, ‘What if this?’ And you go, ‘Oh, I want to watch that.”

Jokingly, host Mike DeAngelo suggests Uncle Owen get his own spin-off, and Edgerton rolls with it. He says, “Yeah, what if Uncle Owen and his whole like, ‘anti-war’ kind of attitude—[maybe he] was saying that because he just didn’t want to fill Luke’s head with ideas, and then you actually would realize he’s basically like some Tatooine Navy SEAL who now decided, ‘I don’t want my quasi-son to go to war.'”

“I’m constantly impressed by TV writers who keep certain shows alive and present and vital for seasons, and they shift the paradigm, and you’re like, ‘How do these people continue to do this?'”

Edgerton first appeared as Owen Lars in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) before later reprising the role on the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Dark Matter is now streaming on Apple TV+.

 

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: joel edgerton, Star Wars

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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