When did Obi-Wan get so old?
This is one of the biggest questions people seem to want to have been answered by Obi-Wan Kenobi. After all, most of us saw the original Star Wars when we were young, so when we think of Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, he seems incredibly old. The fact is though, Guinness was only 63 years old when the film was released. And, right now, Ewan McGregor is 51. There’s about 10 or so years between Obi-Wan Kenobi and the start of A New Hope, so there’s actually a surprising bit of alignment here for the age of Obi-Wan’s two actors.
That said, in 2022, modern technology can make the way people look later in life much younger so the jump from McGregor to Guinness might seem extreme—but hey, you spend a decade in the desert and see what happens.
