Jar Jar Binks and Jedi Master Kelleran Beq actor Ahmed Best paid tribute to Star Wars stars Mark Hamill and Frank Oz in a beautiful post addressing Best's experience with backlash in the franchise.

Ahmed Best, the actor who played the polarizing character Jar Jar Binks in the “Star Wars” prequel films, made a surprise cameo on the Disney+ series nearly 20 years after his final appearance ...

As the actor who played Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels, Ahmed Best did not have the best experience with fans following the release of those films. In recent years, Best has opened up ...

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 ...

Ahmed Best recalls the painful backlash to the “Phantom Menace” character that was considered a racial stereotype at the time, but is now embraced by fans. Supported by By Carlos Aguilar ...

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.

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Ahmed Best’s Jedi Knight character Kelleran Beq is set to return to the Star Wars franchise soon in a new comic book that will see him team up with some fellow Jedi. During the Lucasfilm Publish ...

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

“I was very happy that they were looking for African American voices and direction,” Best said. But hiring Black voice performers, as Compulsion did for a lot of the cast — including Hazel ...