Ewan McGregor's dark side: Star Wars autograph-hunters are 'parasitical lowlifes and f***ing w***ers'

Actor Ewan McGregor, who played iconic Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi, expressed his disgust at some of the fans the franchise gained him.

13:10 28 October 2014

Ewan McGregor appears to have gone to the dark side. The prolific actor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy reboot, branded autograph-hunters as 'parasitical lowlifes and f***ing w***ers'.

The Trainspotting star was being interviewed in America to promote his Broadway play The Real Thing.

He said: "The people I meet are the f***ers who want me to sign Star Wars photos so they can sell them on the Internet or the people at premieres who are crushing children against barriers to get me to sign their f***ing picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"They’re not fans - they’re parasitical lowlifes and f***ing w**kers.”

Of the Star Wars film The Phantom Menace which was a huge box office hit but underwhelmed the critics, McGregor said: “I watched it once, at the premiere, so I’m not in a good position to judge. They had a tall order, the three films I did.

"The fans waited so long and wanted to feel like they did when they watched the first film, but they were grown-ups by that time.

"I don’t mind the criticism. I’ve heard it to my face.”

The star also dropped another bombshell. Despite his infamous falling out with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle last decade, McGregor has let sleeping dogs lie and admits he'd be tempted by an often proposed sequel: “It looks like it might happen. The idea is that we shoot it in 2016, which would be 20 years after the original came out.

"And I’d be up for it. I wouldn’t have been 10 years ago, but I am now.”