By Following the season finale of the sci-fi series “Dark Matter” on the Apple TV+ service, the show’s male lead star Joel Edgerton has spoken with The Playlist about his life and career.
One topic of conversation that came up was his time in the “Star Wars” universe, Edgerton played the younger version of A New Hope’s Uncle Owen in a brief cameo in the prequel trilogy, and reprised it – this time with dialogue – in the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series.
Speaking about the “Star Wars” fandom and all that joy and baggage that comes with that, Edgerton says Lucasfilm shouldn’t ignore fan voices in the creative process:
” There are ‘Star Wars’ fans who could write a better ‘Star Wars’ TV show than you could imagine because they’ve studied it like the Bible and they’ve imagined all the threads and they know the histories of all the characters. I think it’s worth listening to fans because someone out there is going to go, ‘What if this?’ And you go, ‘Oh, I want to watch that.”
Podcast host Mike DeAngelo suggested cheekily that Uncle Owen should get his own spin-off in which he becomes a hit man. Edgerton says:
“Yeah, what if Uncle Owen and his whole like, ‘anti-war’ kind of attitude—[maybe he] was saying that because he just didn’t want to fill Luke’s head with ideas, and then you actually would realize he’s basically like some Tatooine Navy SEAL who now decided, ‘I don’t want my quasi-son to go to war’.
I’m constantly impressed by TV writers who keep certain shows alive and present and vital for seasons, and they shift the paradigm, and you’re like, ‘How do these people continue to do this?”
Edgerton most recently shot “Train Dreams” from “Jockey” director Clint Bentley, and has Ruben Östlund’s “The Entertainment System Is Down” set to shoot early next year.
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