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Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram said that Lucasfilm warned her about the potential for racist backlash from certain Star Wars fans.

“It was something that Lucasfilm actually got in front of, and said, ‘This is a thing that, unfortunately, likely will happen. But we are here to help you; you can let us know when it happens,'” Ingram said in an interview with The Independent. She also stated that Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow has put “the proper systems in place so I feel safe as we do the work” during production. “Of course, there are always pockets of hate,” Ingram continued. “But I have no problem with the block button.”

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Obi-Wan is going to bring the most diversity I think we’ve ever seen in the galaxy before,” said Ingram, who will portray the Inquisitor in the upcoming Disney+ series. “To me, it’s long overdue. If you’ve got talking droids and aliens, but no people of color, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s 2022, you know. So we’re just at the beginning of that change. But I think to start that change is better than never having started it.”

In recent years, franchise stars Kellie Marie Tran and John Boyega have been open about the racist harassment they’ve received from Star Wars fans during their time in the Skywalker sequel trilogy, which began with Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017. Tran, who first appeared as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi and again in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, experienced significant online harassment from fans for her race, gender and appearance, which caused the actor to leave social media entirely in 2018. In a May 2021 interview, Tran discussed the toxicity she experienced from the Star Wars fandom and how it impacted her overall mental health.


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“I recognize my own privilege and understand that there are some people who have to be on social media for their work and their positions,” Tran said at the time. “The thing about it that makes me really upset is just what you were saying in the beginning of us initially speaking, where it’s like, why are we as artists, or as writers, or as creators in the spaces on social media, why are we the ones that have to normalize receiving harassment? That should not be OK.”

Boyega, who made his debut as Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, has criticized how actors of color in the Star Wars franchise have been handled by Disney in the past. However, in May 2021, Boyega revealed that he had “a really nice, transparent, honest conversation” with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy about the racial issues within the franchise. “I think these kinds of conversations, you can go into the realm of sounding like you’re just trying to save your own career, but what is great now is that it is a conversation that anyone has access to,” he said at the time.


Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres on Disney+ on May 27.

Source: The Independent


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