Fans discovered an unexpected live-action return of Ahmed Best to Star Wars in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian season three as Jedi Kelleran Beq, the original savior of Grogu during the events of 2005's Revenge of the Sith's infamous Order 66, which was the Emperor's (Ian McDiarmid) directive of the clone army to purge the[...]
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Helping him escape was Jedi Kelleran Beq, played by Saga trilogy films star Ahmed Best, who originally played the CG Gungan character Jar Jar Binks The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and co-executive producer Dave Filoni spoke to Entertainment Weekly via their Degobah Dispatch podcast on the possibility of seeing Best's live-action future as Beq.
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It turned out the franchise wasn't done with him thanks to a new opportunity and fresh start from The Mandalorian creators Jon Favreau and executive producers Dave Filoni and Rick Famuyiwa as a new original character in Kelleran Beq Best spoke to StarWars.com about playing the brave Jedi who helped save Grogu during Order 66[...]
As Best and Christensen found their way back to the franchise, with the latter reprising his role for the Disney+ live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucasfilm cast Best as Jedi Kelleran Beq in The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 20: The Foundling."
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Ahmed Best's Return to Star Wars in 'The Mandalorian'
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In the series, host Ahmed Best aka Master Kelleran Beq (also Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel films), wise-cracking protocol droid AD-3 (Mary Holland), and astromech LX-R5 guide Padawans through a series of tasks to become Jedi Knights Our first episode includes competitors Drake and Grace (Blue Team), Griffin and Brayden (Orange Team), and[...]
Reality competition series host Ahmed Best aka Master Kelleran Beq (also Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel films) took to Instagram to reveal that the series (available on the Star Wars Kids channel on YouTube and StarWarsKids.com) would be pushing back its premiere from June 3 to June 10 Best offered a very[...]