George Lucas has a favourite Star Wars character that might surprise you.
The director, who created the beloved film franchise, has revealed that one of his best-loved characters is Jar Jar Binks, who is widely detested by the fandom.
Speaking in a video shown at a fan event celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, Lucas said: “[It] is one of my favourite movies and of course Jar Jar is my favourite character,” he said via video.
The backlash to the alien character was so intense that actor Ahmed Best said he considered taking his own life in a moving post he shared on Twitter.
He said the resentment hew faced “still affects [his] career today.”
Last week saw the first trailer released for Episode IX, which will be titled The Rise of Skywalker.
The JJ Abrams film will be released in December and will be the final chapter of a trilogy before The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson and Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss embark on a new trilogy of Star Wars projects going into the 2020s.
