INTERVIEW: Star Wars actor Ahmed Best is feeling a warm reception at Motor City Comic Con. The man who played Jar Jar Binks, and wielded a lightsaber in The Mandalorian called Star Wars fans “family.” ...

An all-new season of Light & Magic has arrived on Disney+, which dives even deeper into the prolific history of special ...

Actor Ahmed Best is amazed that his character Jar Jar Binks is seeing a surge in popularity these days, but he claims that Star Wars mastermind George Lucas saw it coming from the start.

Ahmed Best, the actor behind the maligned Gungan, suffered greatly under the weight of public disapproval. "It was the lowest I've been in my life," he confessed in a 2023 interview with the Guardian.

One character, in particular, Jar Jar Binks, became the focus of intense backlash, being labelled as irritating at best and at worst, a racial caricature. Ahmed Best, the actor behind the ...

in a new video for SoulPancake (via io9), Best opens up even more about his career, from his experience filming Phantom Menace to his hope for the role. He details his shock from the "hate ...

Ahmed Best, the actor behind the Gungan character, experienced profound personal repercussions due to the criticism. "It was the lowest I've been in my life," he revealed during a 2023 interview ...

Ahmed Best, the actor behind the maligned Gungan, suffered greatly under the weight of public disdain. "It was the lowest I've been in my life," he confessed to the Guardian in 2023. The loathing ...

The character, however, was not well received at the time of the trilogy's release, and there was a lot of negativity thrown ...