Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best reveals how Star Wars creator George Lucas helped him navigate the negative responses to the ...

Ahmed Best says he was frozen out of Hollywood amid the hate he got for his portrayal of Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. The actor made history in 1999 playing the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Ahmed Best—the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it—shouldn’t have needed a Star ...

Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and the rest of the Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace cast loved Ahmed Best's Jar Jar Binks voice despite it not going down well with fans.

Sold. Especially if we could get Keanu Reeves to join the Star Wars movie as a literal Jedi John Wick fighting beside Ahmed Best’s Kelleran Beq. ( If he’s not too busy making John Wick movies ...

Many planned Star Wars movies have fallen apart and while we now have upcoming Star Wars movies that appear to be locked in, Ahmed Best has an idea for one that somebody at Lucasfilm absolutely ...

May 19th is the movie's official anniversary, and the latest tribute comes from Jar Jar Binks himself, Ahmed Best. The actor, who also played Kelleran Beq in Jedi Temple Challenge and Star Wars ...

Jar Jar Binks might have been an intergalactic pariah in 1999, but it seems like George Lucas — and Ahmed Best, who brought the clumsy Gungan to life — got the last laugh. For the record ...

In an interview with The New York Times, Best made the (100% correct) case for Jar Jar’s lasting legacy in motion picture history.Because while his goofy Gungan was much reviled during the ...

Star Wars actor Ahmed Best, who first played Jar Jar Binks in the Prequel Trilogy but more recently portrayed Jedi Master Kelleran Beq in The Mandalorian, wants to make a film that's essentially ...

That film also marked the first major role for Ahmed Best, who provided the voice and the motion capture performance for Jar Jar Binks, a new character who was largely received with scorn from ...