Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmid, Andy Serkis Confirmed as Guests for ‘Star Wars’ Celebration
Star Wars Celebration Europe continues to add more guests to its already-stacked lineup. The organization announced Monday that Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine), and Andy Serkis (Supreme Leader Snoke and Andor‘s Kino Loy) will be attending the event, signing autographs and taking pictures with fans.
McDiarmid is a regular of the event at this point, and might even have another panel of his own akin to last year’s “An Audience with the Emperor”. However, he will definitely be swinging by the 40th-anniversary panel for Return of the Jedi, which already added a long list of names last week. Billy Dee Williams, Denis Lawson, and Anthony Daniels have also been confirmed to be attending Celebration, so they will likely be taking the stage for that one too.
Serkis is the first cast member of Andor to be confirmed as a guest, though the Tony Gilroy series might still have a small presence via a production update — they will still be shooting season 2 by the time Celebration comes around, so they don’t really have a lot to promote.
And finally, McGregor clearly had a blast last year and wanted to return. He is not the only member of the Obi-Wan Kenobi family to be attending Celebration, as Vivien Lyra Blair (young Leia), Indira Varma (Tala Durith), and Hayden Christensen himself (Darth Vader) are also coming to London. Rupert Friend (the Grand Inquisitor) also said during the closing panel last year that he’d be there too, but he hasn’t been confirmed yet. Whether or not all of this means an announcement for a season 2 of the hit series will be made, we don’t know yet, but it’s certainly not out of the question.
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You can book your slot for autograph signings or photo-ops for any of the guests above here, except for Sean Crawford, who was the only one doing it at no cost (and who sold out in no time). Single-day tickets for Star Wars Celebration, which will be returning to the ExCeL Centre in London on April 7-10, are still available here.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
