It is a bizarre fact… but yes, Michael Jackson did want to play the character of Jar Jar Binks. Jackson was a big Star Wars fan. He had life-size statues of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and C-3PO at his Neverland Ranch. Jackson also collaborated with Star Wars creator George Lucas in 1986 on a short film called Captain EO.
The King of Pop, who passed away in June 2009 aged 50, was apparently considered for the role of Jar Jar in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' by George Lucas. Ahmed Best, the unfortunate actor who actually nabbed the role, told Vice: “That's what George [Lucas] told me.
Singer Michael Jackson wanted to play the role, but wished to portray the character using prosthetics while Lucas wanted him to be all CGI. Ahmed Best was cast based on his work in the production of Stomp, as Lucas wanted someone athletic for the role.
Before voice actor Ahmed Best was cast as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Michael Jackson tried to score the role. In a 2015 interview with Vice, Best recalls being introduced to Jackson by George Lucas as “Jar Jar” backstage at a London concert.
The trickiest part of the podcast is broaching one of the biggest criticisms of Jar Jar Binks. After the release of The Phantom Menace, film critics, professors and media scholars all claimed that he was racially offensive.
Having lost any prospects for the future, Jar Jar returned to Naboo and settled down in the capital city of Theed, where he became a street performer. Eventually, Jar Jar encountered a young boy named Mapo and took him on as an apprentice, teaching Mapo how to become a performer like Jar Jar himself was.
Ahmed Best is putting his best foot forward in the modern “Star Wars” franchise. Over two decades since his portrayal of the controversial Jar Jar Binks in the 1999 prequel film “The Phantom Menace,” Best appeared in Disney+ series “The Mandalorian” Season 3 as Jedi Kelleran Beq.
Actor Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in the movie, theorized that Star Wars creator George Lucas created the Gungan language based on the way his son Jett, who was six years old at the time, processed language.
Gunganese, also known as Gungan or Old Gungan, was the native language of the Gungans, an amphibious species from Naboo. In practice, the Gungans often used a pidgin tongue that combined Galactic Basic Standard with Gunganese words and speech patterns.
In 2017 The Star Wars Show live streamed a Star Wars celebration, during which Liam Neeson, who played Qui-Gon Jinn, also confirmed the Darth Jar-Jar theory, saying “(Jar-Jar) did go to the Dark Side.” As Yoda once said, “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering”.
Jar Jar Binks was a male Otolla Gungan military commander and politician who played a key role during the Invasion of Naboo and the Clone Wars that culminated in the fall of the Galactic Republic and the rise of the Galactic Empire.
Palpatine carefully orchestrated events to manipulate the galaxy, and Jar Jar's involvement suggests he may have been the eyes and ears on Naboo. Jar Jar's goofy movements and ability to avoid death hint at hidden Force skills, and his hand gestures resemble those of Jedi or Sith using mind tricks.
There was a lot of hate for Jar Jar when The Phantom Menace came out, mostly as a racist stereotype who was difficult to understand. Over time, he grew even less tolerable and became a symbol for how the prequels as a whole failed to capture what made the original trilogy so enjoyable.
Of course, this probably wasn't George Lucas' plan at all. He intended Jar Jar to appeal to children, so it's highly doubtful that he'd have written the character as a secret Dark Lord of the Sith.
Kin-Ya Dosun was a Gungan Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Dosun trained the Jedi Padawan Kosa-Yin Hadu, a fellow Gungan. The pair disappeared around 33 BBY while on a mission from the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant.
On the eve of the First Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY, Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks convinced the Senate to increase the scope of the Chancellor's emergency powers because of the apparent threat of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Ahmed Best is an African-American actor, musician and dancer. He gained recognition for portraying Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
On Friday's episode of Clone Wars, Jar Jar Binks becomes a Jedi. In an interstellar case of mistaken identity, the half-wit Naboo native dons the cloak, teams up with the first trilogy's bumbler C-3PO, and saves Amidala from separatists who think he's a master of The Force.
Kylo/Ben was born about a year after Return of the Jedi so he's roughly 29 when we first see him in The Force Awakens, also possibly having turned 30 during The Last Jedi.
Even though Luke tried his best to protect him, Anakin accepted his fate and expressed his love for his son and daughter, Leia, whom he learned about before dying. While it seemed like Anakin had lived a long life, his choices eventually led to his demise at 45.
