Unfortunately for the production team, McGregor, an avid Star Wars fan, was unable to refrain from making lightsaber sounds while filming The Phantom Menace.
Because of this, Ewan McGregor, who played a young Obi-Wan Kenobi, was required to engage in a bunch of dazzling lightsaber battles.
George Lucas previously explained that lightsaber duels in the prequel films are much more impressive because the Jedi were in their prime. In fact, the intense lightsaber duels and action scenes in the prequel trilogy trump the sequences in the original trilogy by a long shot. The writing, dialogue, and characters featured in the prequel films contrasts starkly from that of their predecessors, but not everything got worse. The Star Wars prequel trilogy has historically not been too popular amongst die-hard fans.
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