Actor Ahmed Best wants a better canon ending for The Phantom Menace’s Jar Jar Binks.
For now, there’s Darth Jar Jar in the next LEGO Star Wars animated special.
We want to see the clown.
And the clown acquiesces, happy to find any form of acceptance.
The adults, though, continues the narrator, they dont say much about him.
And no other Gungans come to see him, either.
Nobody even says his name.
The name, if you havent guessed, isJar Jar Binks.
For someStar Warsfans,Empire Endpresents a fitting end for Jar Jar.
After all, he was once one of the most hated characters in pop culture history.
I dont think thats Jar Jars fate.
Instead, Best insists that Jar Jar was spectacularly clumsy and failed upwards.
He just was just wonderful character that always found a way to succeed.
Best describes that period during the pre-release excitement as being in a bubble, which popped almost immediately.
It was already being talked about even before the movie dropped.
However, Best also acknowledges a certain amount of risk involved with his take onthe Gungan.
He shared with People the trepidation he felt before debuting the characters voice during a table read.
I was just like, Everybody sounds so good.
Am I going to do this voice or not?
And then I see the character name coming up and I was like, F it.
And I just do it, he explained.
And everybody in the room goes crazy for it.
So I was like, OK, all right.
I got that one out.
Im supposed to be here now.'
Both his career and his spirits suffered because of the fallout, something that took years to overcome.
But likeHayden Christensenand the prequel trilogy in general, Best has been welcomed back byStar Warsfans in recent years.
