{"id":42165,"date":"2025-08-04T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42165\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:22:12","slug":"liam-neeson-thought-his-star-wars-death-was-namby-pamby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42165\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson Thought His &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; Death Was &#8220;Namby-Pamby&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA somewhat long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/liam-neeson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Liam Neeson<\/a> took a lightsaber to the gut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Oscar nominee recently expressed dissatisfaction with his Jedi Master character Qui-Gon Jinn in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Star Wars: Episode I \u2014 The Phantom Menace<\/a>, noting that he was \u201csupposed to be a Master Jedi\u201d but got duped during a lightsaber duel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI thought my death was a bit namby-pamby. I\u2019m supposed to be a Master Jedi,\u201d he told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R8mm4d4Qalw\">GQ<\/a>. \u201cMy character fell for that. \u2018Oh, I\u2019m going for your face! No, I\u2019m not, I\u2019m going for your stomach.\u2019 \u2018Oh, you got me!\u2019 Like, oh please. Hardly a Master Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBut still, it was great,\u201d noted Neeson of the filming experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore than 20 years later, he reprised the role for a reunion with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ewan-mcgregor\/\">Ewan McGregor<\/a> in his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-plus\/\">Disney+<\/a> spin-off series <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obi-wan-kenobi\/\">Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/a>. \u201cI kinda liked that. It was just one line. It was nice to recreate that and be with Ewan after 18, 20 years. It was sweet,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring the prequel\u2019s 25th anniversary last year, concept and storyboard artist Iain McCaig revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-lucas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">George Lucas<\/a> had another \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/star-wars-phantom-menace-twist-george-lucas-cut-1236165441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">very poignant<\/a>\u201d ending in mind, that would have involved Neeson playing Obi-Wan from the jump, with McGregor as his Padawan, Qui-Gon<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAs Obi-Wan dies and Qui-Gon defeats Darth Maul and stays with his Master as he passes away, he not only takes on his Master\u2019s quest, but he takes on his name,\u201d explained McCaig in November. \u201cQui-Gon becomes Obi-Wan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough the switch-up would have ended on a more shocking reveal, it would have yielded the same outcome, with McGregor\u2019s Obi-Wan going on to train Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen), and ultimately his son Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the original trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A somewhat long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Liam Neeson took a lightsaber to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,22014,7521,2839,2591,23068,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-42165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-george-lucas","10":"tag-liam-neeson","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}