‘The lowest I’ve ever been’: how playing Jar Jar Binks led to abuse, near death – and saving Baby Yoda | Television
‘The lowest I’ve ever been’: how playing Jar Jar Binks led to abuse, near death – and saving Baby Yoda | Television
Ahmed Best thought he’d made it big when cast as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. But it turned into a nightmare of online abuse and accusations of racism. With a new podcast revisiting his story, the actor talks about why he’s still proud of his historic role
Ahmed Best thought he’d made it big when cast as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. But it turned into a nightmare of online abuse and accusations of racism. With a new podcast revisiting his story, the actor talks about why he’s still proud of his historic role
It is a shame as Best was really good as a CGI actor. Of all the criticisms I have of the character, none of them come from the acting.
24All they had to do was have a third act reveal of Darth Jar Jar with a complete tone shift like they did with Yoda in Empire. Fucker would have been iconic.
11Great read! I had no idea.
10Darth Jar Jar
9It honestly makes a lot of sense.
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... poor guy!
ive done some really cringy shit in my time, but i couldn't imagine having to take credit for giving life to fucking jar-jar. 😭
-64Did you read the article? The guy almost killed himself from having to listen to comments like this one. Asshole. Keep it to yourself.
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