When they approached Sir Alec Guinness to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars", he thought the project was silly -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_guinness. He even thought his character's NAME was silly.
He had won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1957, playing Col. Nicholson in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and he proposed they recognize that fact by renaming his character "Obi-Kwai". He also wanted to change the last name from "Kenobi" to "Tanblomi". When George Lucas heard about it, he approached Guinness in a rage. "Who do you think you are?" he asked. Guinness replied, "Oh, be quiet and blow me."
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- Rhetorich
- I lived a good life, then I got old. It happens.
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