{"id":16335,"date":"2022-06-01T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1654659"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:08:09","slug":"ewan-mcgregor-sickened-by-racism-towards-kenobi-co-star-moses-ingram","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ewan-mcgregor-sickened-by-racism-towards-kenobi-co-star-moses-ingram\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewan McGregor \u201csickened\u201d by racism towards Kenobi co-star Moses Ingram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 01 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Ewan McGregor has spoken out about the racism directed at his <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/obi-wan-kenobi-series-release-date-disney-plus\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/a> co-star Moses Ingram on social media, telling viewers \u201cIf you\u2019re sending her bullying messages, you\u2019re no Star Wars fan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came in a video uploaded to the official Star Wars Twitter account, shortly after Ingram had revealed she\u2019d been targeted with \u201chundreds\u201d of racist messages since the show debuted last week.<\/p> <p>\u201cThis weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most-watched Disney Plus original series premiere of all time \u2013 and for that, I would say a big thank you,\u201d McGregor began. \u201cIt just goes to show what this family can do when we all pull together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it seems that some of the fanbase \u2013 from this individual fanbase \u2013 have decided to attack Moses Ingram online and send her the most horrendous, racist DMs. And I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cMoses is a brilliant actor, she\u2019s a brilliant woman and she\u2019s absolutely amazing in this series \u2013 she brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise, and it just sickens me to my stomach to hear that this has been happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to say as the leading actor in the series, as the executive producer on the series, that we stand with Moses, we love Moses, and if you\u2019re sending her bullying messages you\u2019re no Star Wars fan in my mind. There\u2019s no place for racism in this world and I totally stand with Moses.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">A personal message from Ewan McGregor. <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/rJSDmj663K&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/rJSDmj663K<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Star Wars (@starwars) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/starwars\/status\/1531804726165401600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/><p>The Queen\u2019s Gambit star Ingram \u2013 who plays the Third Sister, Reva Sevander on the show \u2013 had shared some examples of the abusive messages she\u2019s received on Instagram earlier in the week, writing that \u201cThere\u2019s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to McGregor\u2019s message, the Star Wars Twitter account had <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/obi-wan-kenobi-moses-ingram-support-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">released a statement condemning the abuse<\/a> and telling fans: \u201cThere are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don\u2019t choose to be a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars alumni <a href=\"\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/john-boyega-star-wars-racism-marginalized-1054189\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">John Boyega<\/a> and Kelly Marie Tran have both also received similar racist abuse online in the past, with Tran deleting her social media accounts in response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;&quot;\">\u201cI knew that the most important thing was to protect my mental health and make myself a space where I felt like I could create again and where I could be an artist again, which for a time, I didn\u2019t know if I could do that again,\u201d she told <a href=\"\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/kelly-marie-tran-on-raya-internet-harassment-and-fandom-interview?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_brand=tv&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Teen Vogue<\/a> last year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\">\n<p><strong>The Obi-Wan Kenobi series continues on Disney Plus on Wednesdays at 8am GMT. 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