#THIS ENTIRE INTERVIEW IS A DELIGHT [x][x]
#EXCEPT THE PART ABOUT DISPARAGING THE JEDI MULLET FROM AOTC
#HOW DARE YOU SIR
#THAT LOOK WAS HANDSOME AS HELL
#AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS SLANDER

The Phantom Menace
“I remember the idea of it being short. I think they were looking for something in a military sense or in the world of monks that there’s some sort of hairstyle sacrifice in order to be a Jedi. I guess to become a Jedi you have to give up the idea of being married or there’s some sort of monk-like qualities that are similar.”

“What I didn’t like very much was when we came back, there was always a period of time after the main shoot where we came back to do some reshoots. And for Episode I, it was six, seven, eight months after the principal photography, we had to come back and I was doing something else and I couldn’t cut my hair. And so they made a wig that was a short hair wig, which is the worst kind of wig. If you’ve got a wig and it’s long hair, you can disguise the fact that it’s a wig, but when it’s a short hair wig, it’s a nightmare. I’ve seen some clips of both Episode I and the reshoots from Episode 2 where you’re like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

“And then for Episode I, not only did I have to wear it for the reshoots, and it’s usually just a little shot here or there for reshoots. And most people don’t really notice it. But some bright spark decided to put me on a poster in the wig! They picked an image of me from the reshoots and I saw myself in this huge poster in the wig. And I’m like, ‘Are you kidding? You couldn’t find a still of me when from the real shoot?’ Unbelievable. I don’t know who that was, but I’d love to meet them one day and just say, 'Are you f—ing kidding me about that?’”

Attack of the Clones
“We called it the sort of Jedi mullet. It could be in some second-degree way a little cool, but not really. It was very mullet-y and sort of quite inspired pretty much by the Bee Gees, I think really. Jedi Bee Gees. So yeah, I didn’t like it very much, but I guess there’s some sort of progression. Hayden had to go through a similar sort of progression with his hair where it’s shorter when you were Padawan, then longer at the back.”

Revenge of the Sith
“Ultimately in Episode III, we get onto a haircut, which is heading more towards Alec Guinness in Episode IV. We were looking at pictures of Alec Guinness in Episode IV and we were definitely trying to bridge that gap. We thought, this is the last we’re going to see of Obi-Wan Kenobi before he’s Alec Guinness. And so we’re sort of moving in that direction. We put some graying in here. We grayed up the beard a little bit. And it was a much shorter haircut. I think the Episode 2IIhaircut was meant to be like warrior, and the Episode III haircut was meant to be more master, teacher. So I think my idea was definitely to try and get closer to Alec Guinness. It was to try and show that that’s where I was headed.”

Obi-Wan Kenobi
“So we find Obi-Wan at the beginning of our story, it’s a longer haircut. I think it’s a man who’s been not looking after himself so much, and I wanted a much more sort of unkempt look where Obi-Wan starts at the beginning of that story, he’s pretty hopeless. He’s without hope, he’s without faith and he wanted this sort of hair and beard to represent that. So it’s much more less groomed and longer.”