#honestly the best cast idc (sorry my lotr dear darling cast members but i'm back in my sw era)

[rivnedell]

I just can move my eyes away from them, they are breathtaking 😭

This is gonna be quite long… and funny, hopefully. 

I was rewatching my favorite duels on the tube, this morning, and this thought occurred to me. 

Ewan McGregor is the Ginger Rogers of Star Wars. 

Yeah, I know, listen. This is our beloved Obi-Wan Kenobi, jedi master, the Master of Soresu, great lightsaber duelist, amazing fighter and all, look at him. How fast, and powerful, and lethal, yeah. I love him, right. We all do, I know. 

He was amazing from the start, so good that he’s the first jedi and padawan to kill a sith in a thousand years, and he’s the master of Soresu, so good that he gives way, against Anakin, hoping to get him so tired to talk to him out of the dark side. What a jedi, what a warrior. 

Fine. 

Then, we have Ewan McGregor, so good at it that they had to slow down the duel with amazing Ray Park because it was so fast that nobody would believe it. Look at them. 

Let’s not forget that Ray Park is an actual martial artist, and he was in his prime during this film, and they were so good and fast that the fight is perfectly believable. A choreography, but a perfect one. Two dancers in synch. 

And with Hayden? Look at them. Fast, precise, and Ewan is always walking backwards. 

the most amazing thing to me is that is Ewan actually deciding the pace, because Hayden can’t be too fast or he’ll risk to hurt Ewan, and can’t be too slow, or he’ll miss the beat. And in all this, Ewan is walking backwards, without ever looking, and without missing a beat. 

Ginger Rogers would have been so proud of Ewan.