Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton can boast of having a long film career, but without a doubt one of the most important roles of his career is that of Owen Larsalso known as the uncle owenwhich he played in the universe of Star Wars.
As our colleagues say Espinofhas recently granted an interview to NME to talk about his starring role in the film Master Gardeneralthough in the midst of so many questions, he has taken a moment to recognize how important it has been in his career to have been part of the universe of Star Warsespecially because of how it changed his life.
His first appearance was in 2002 in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clonesalthough a few years later he returned to the shoes of the same character when it was released Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in 2005. In addition, he returned to repeat the same role almost two decades later in the series Obi-Wan Kenobi from Disney Plus.
Although his presence was very brief and practically anecdotal, he has acknowledged that it was one of the best things that has happened to him, assuring that owes everything to George Lucas and Star Wars:
I owe a lot in my career to George Lucas (the creator of Star Wars) for giving me that job. He opened all the doors to Hollywood for me. He allowed everyone in Los Angeles to welcome me and say “Oh, he’s in Star Wars. Let’s give him an addition for other things.”
That does not mean that in principle he was somewhat reticent about being Uncle Owen againadmitting that his character was very bland:
To be honest, I was a bit…not snobbish, but reticent about saying “I’ve done this before”. I always joke that Uncle Owen is the most boring character in Star Wars history because he’s just a moisture farmer and he can’t even wield a lightsaber.
In any case, despite considering him a curmudgeon, the only thing he asked of the producers when reprising his character was that give it something of importance, even if it was just getting into a fight. In fact, in the end he got away with it by facing Reva Sevander:
Everyone thinks Uncle Owen is a grump and curmudgeon who says “no.” I was like, “this is my chance to put a little more context to it and make people like it a little more.” And I think we did. Also, my only warning to them was, “I know what you guys have planned for the story and how it unfolds, and I’m not asking for more screen time, I just want to do something cool. Can I at least have a fight?”
I was like, “I’ve never had a fight with a woman on screen before.” And in a way, spoilers aside, I lose. How cool is that?”
