Sir Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi
SIR Alec Guinness wrote to a friend to complain about his “rubbish dialogue” in the first Star Wars film.
Writing in 1977, the late actor said: “New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable.”
Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac read the words as part of performance of Letters Live in London.
Sir Alec, who played Obi Wan Kenobi, described co-star Harrison Ford as a “languid young man” but struggled to remember his name, referring to “Tennyson (that can’t be right) Ford”. He added that Ford was “probably intelligent and amusing.”
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