"A newly promoted Obi-Wan Kenobi"
Maxim May 2002

Are you ready for the Clones hype having been through this once before?
I didn't really sense any of it the first time, to tell you the truth. The only difference I've noticed is that the people
who recognize me are more fanatical, and somehow they always have a bunch of Star Wars stuff for me to sign.
And now when children come up to me they always want to know if I really killed Darth Maul.

How has the character of Obi-Wan changed since The Phantom Menace? He's the master now, more mature and witty, I think. There was no room to play anything other than the bare bones in the first episode, it seemed. So in the second he's certainly a more rounded character. You get to see more of his humor.

Did the teacher-pupil relationship between him and Anakin related to your work with Hayden Christensen?
There was no, this is how you do it son, but we certainly fed off each other. Because I'd already experienced
Episode I, I watched him make the realizations of what special effects work is all about and it reminded me of
exactly how I struggled. It's a very different kind of job for an actor, and it can have it's fustrations.

Surely your fight scenes must help you work out some of that frustration?
For the fights we worth with Nick Gillard, a brilliant stunt coordinator. For each one we just talk about it first; once
we start filming, we isolate each dangerous bit, then work that out then we shoot it. We do that just till we're blue
in the face- you actually have to go through a boredom threshold to get them so they're really tasty. Of course I dont
actually get to do the big stunts and falls and s**** like that because, well, the insurance companies wouldn't let me.