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Ewan McGregor discusses playing Obi-Wan Kenobi and trying to sound like Alec Guinness

Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor says it was great to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again and that he has tried to sound like Alec Guinness.

Ewan is back after 20 years as the Jedi master for new Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi and said the new technology it great.

He told BBC Scotland's The Edit : "I could not have imagined it would be so satisfying to play him again.

Ewan McGregor first played the role in "Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones" (Reuters)

"It was really great, I think partly because of the new technology."

Ewan was in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in 1999, as a younger version of Alec Guinness's character from two decades earlier before returning in Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones.

He said of that experience: "In episode 2 (Attack of the Clones), I go off on my own for a while and I have all these scenes with aliens with long necks and I was just acting with a tennis ball on a stick for weeks and weeks.

"It is pretty hard work to do that and make it feel realistic."

For his new Star Wars spin-off , a decade after Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith, a massive video wall is used to create a realistic background.

And Ewan had his work cut out improving his accent, with his character now closer to the age of Alec Guinness's version.

He said: "I have got just make him sound like Alec Guinness.

"I have to hear Alec Guinness in my head and he wasn't very Scottish."

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