Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Greatest Returns to Star Wars as Mandalorian Jedi

The brand new episode, titled “The Foundling,” featured an sudden cameo from Ahmed Greatest who returned to the “Star Wars” universe as a Jedi named Kelleran Beq. The 49-year-old actor controversially performed Jar Jar Binks within the franchise’s prequel trilogy.

Greatest was featured in a short flashback to Order 66, when clone troopers double crossed and mass murdered the Jedi. When Grogu discovered himself surrounded by a bunch of enemy clone troopers, Kelleran got here to his rescue and the pair escaped on a ship. The episode concluded with the opportunity of Greatest’s return as Kelleran and Grogu fly off to an undisclosed location.

The “Star Wars” vet has taken on the position of the Jedi earlier than. Greatest first performed Kelleran within the webseries “Star Wars: Jedi Temple Problem,” which was Disney+’s 2020 Star Wars-themed recreation present the place youngsters accomplished impediment programs and answered quiz inquiries to earn the title of a Jedi Knight.

Greatest broke onto the scene enjoying Jar Jar in 1999’s The Phantom Menace, a job that was created by George Lucas as comedian aid however in the end rubbed each followers and critics the fallacious approach.

So reviled was the character Greatest as soon as even thought of suicide, he revealed a couple of years in the past.

Jar Jar was the primary ever totally pc generated character created for a movie; Greatest beforehand expressed frustration that Andy Serkis is universally given all of the plaudits for movement seize efficiency, when it’s a subject he himself helped pioneer.

Regardless of the revulsion, Jar Jar performed a pivotal position in Star Wars cannon, triggering the vote to grant Supreme Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers to deal with the Separatist droid military, which allowed him to dissolve the Senate, reveal his clone military and declare himself Emperor.

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