LOS ANGELES: When Ewan McGregor first played a lightsaber-wielding Jedi hero in the much-maligned “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, he didn’t feel much love from the fans.
Initial audience excitement about returning to a galaxy far, far away in 1999’s “The Phantom Menace” was quickly doused by the prequels’ corny dialogue, arcane inter-galactic politics and Jar Jar Binks.
But as he steps back into his role for Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” out next Friday, McGregor says he has been pleasantly surprised by a major re-evaluation of the prequels, particularly among younger viewers.
“One of…
