“Are you f—ing kidding me about that?”
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi Master.
That doesn’t mean he has always been a master of fashionable hairstyles, however.
Ewan McGregor in ‘Star Wars The Phantom Menace’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
And we captured the entire thing on video for your enjoyment.
The Phantom Menace
“I remember the idea of it being short.
And most people don’t really notice it.
Ewan McGregor in ‘Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones’.Lisa Tomesetti/Lucasfilm Ltd.
But some bright spark decided to put me on a poster in the wig!
And I’m like, ‘Are you kidding?
You couldn’t find a still of me when from the real shoot?’
Ewan McGregor in ‘Star Wars Revenge of the Sith’.Lucasfilm
Attack of the Clones
“We called it the sort of Jedi mullet.
It could be in some second-degree way a little cool, but not really.
It was very mullet-y and sort of quite inspired pretty much by the Bee Gees, I think really.
Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi.Matt Kennedy / Lucasfilm Ltd.
And so we’re sort of moving in that direction.
We put some graying in here.
We grayed up the beard a little bit.
And it was a much shorter haircut.
So I think my idea was definitely to try and get closer to Alec Guinness.
It was to try and show that that’s where I was headed.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi
“It’s a longer haircut.
So it’s much more less groomed and longer.”
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