Disney Plus' "Obi-Wan Kenobi" will mark Ewan McGregor's first return to "Star Wars" in 17 years, but the actor hasn't completely forgotten his Jedi training in the almost two decades that have passed between "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" and his new streaming series. EW interviewed Conor McGregor about his usage of the Force hand motion to open automated doors in stores.
You know how I do it? I use doors! As McGregor put it, "It's like a finger-slash-Force." Just for my personal pleasure, I like to play around with automated doors. I've been known to perform a small Jedi maneuver while approaching a door, and it's gotten me in trouble more than once. "You know, like when I'm wheeling my shopping cart out of the grocery."
For the most part, McGregor says he does this for his own entertainment because it makes him chuckle, but he admits that he has been caught doing it. You can't help but do it. Isn't it? " It's a lot of fun, actually. It has a profound feeling when it happens at the correct time.
To no avail, McGregor has attempted to dazzle his children by using the Force to open the automated doors of supermarkets. My kids are resilient to the entire Jedi mind trick, "he said. Nobody cares. No, it does not work for them.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is Disney Plus's third "Star Wars" series, after "The Mandalorian" and "The Book of Boba Fett." Director Deborah Chow (who worked on a handful of "Mandalorian" episodes behind the camera) and writer Joby Harold are behind this new program. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" will reunite McGregor and Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan in "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith," respectively.