'You’re no Star Wars fan': Ewan McGregor responds to racist messages against Obi-Wan co-star

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The actor took to Twitter on Wednesday (Jun 1) to express his feelings about the harassment that Moses Ingram has been facing.

Ewan McGregor, the face of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, has had enough with racist trolls harassing his co-star Moses Ingram.

He added: “Moses is a brilliant actor. She is a brilliant woman. And she is absolutely amazing in this series. She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise. And it just sickened me to my stomach that this had been happening. McGregor’s video comes in the wake of a series of Instagram stories that Ingram had posted, sharing direct messages that purported Star Wars fans sent her on social media. Some of the messages contained racist expletives against her.

 

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