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.

In 2018 Ahmed Best, the actor who played the alien, confessed he almost ended his own life after all the backlash, with fans and celebrities sending him countless messages of support. A year later ...

The season 3 episode “Chapter 20: The Foundling” revealed that it was Best’s Jedi Knight Kelleran Beq who rescued Grogu from the Jedi Temple when Emperor Palpatine ordered the Great Jedi ...

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 ...

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