Ewan McGregor Says Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2 Still Has No Movement at Disney

Ewan McGregor is making a public case for Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2, but the actor is also conceding that Disney has shown no progress toward greenlighting a follow-up to the 2022 Disney+ series.

Speaking with Anne Hathaway for Esquire’s “Inquiring Minds” video series, McGregor was asked whether a second season was getting closer. His answer was blunt: “Come on. I don’t think we are. There seems to be no progress in that direction.”

Hathaway pitches herself for the quest

The interview, filmed while McGregor and Hathaway promote their upcoming film The End of Oak Street, turned to Star Wars when Hathaway volunteered that she wants in on the long-rumored second season.

“I kind of want to join you on your quest for Yoda in this future quest of yours.”

McGregor laughed off the suggestion but used it to underscore just how stalled the project remains.

“Now that you’ve said that, that might help us get it done, you know, because up to this point, nothing’s really moving on that front.”

He issued a direct appeal to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro: “Come on, Josh, let’s go.”

Decade of unwritten story

McGregor and co-star Hayden Christensen have both publicly expressed interest in reprising the role, and McGregor remains convinced the material is there.

Asked later in the same conversation what part of Obi-Wan’s journey feels unfinished, he pointed to the gap between the Disney+ series finale and Alec Guinness’s appearance in the original 1977 Star Wars.

“Well, everything between the end of the TV series that we did and Alec Guinness. So, there’s 10 years of something happening to Obi-Wan.”

That span — from Obi-Wan leaving young Luke Skywalker with the Lars family on Tatooine and riding off with Qui-Gon Jinn’s Force ghost, to a hooded hermit watching over a grown Luke from a distance — covers more than a decade of off-screen life that has never been dramatized.

“There’s got to be a good few stories left to tell,” McGregor said.

Mixed signals since 2024

The latest comments cap nearly two years of mixed messaging. McGregor teased a second season as far back as October 2024.

By June 2025, the project was rumored to be moving forward. Then last August, reports confirmed that Ahsoka Season 2 would feature no appearance by McGregor’s Obi-Wan, and the franchise’s other Disney+ Star Wars series have continued to roll forward without him.

The gap is particularly striking given the original series’ performance. Obi-Wan Kenobi delivered the most-watched Disney+ original series premiere ever at the time of its 2022 debut, and a follow-up still has not been ordered.

Hathaway’s half-sister pitch

The same interview produced an unexpected bit of Star Wars fan-casting. Asked which character she would play if she joined the franchise, Hathaway floated the idea of being Carrie Fisher’s secret sister — a role McGregor endorsed before Hathaway caught a canon problem of her own making.

“So, Amidala couldn’t have had another baby. So, am I like Anakin’s evil daughter?”

McGregor replied, “Oh, that’d be interesting. I kind of like that.”

Hathaway landed on: “So I’m Luke and Leia’s half-sister.”

“Yeah, there you go. That would be interesting.”

Whether any of that becomes more than a video Q&A bit remains unclear. The End of Oak Street hits theaters on August 14, 2026.