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Originally Posted by KTrain
McGregor was my favourite part of the prequels. I think he did a great job portraying a young Obi Wan.
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There were two performances that stood out because they were so good and two because they were so bad.
Ewan McGregor was brilliant as Obi-Wan, he did a ton of work studying AG and it showed. He was the very image of what we thought a young Ben Kenobi was like.
Ian Mcdarmid as Palpatine, he was brilliant as the kindly Senator and later Supreme Chancellor. I believe that ROTS could have been an hour longer with a lot more seduction of Anakin and would have been better, but throughout PM to AOTC and especially ROTS he was awesome. Especially his telling of the story of Darth Plagueis the wise which was memorizing.
Natalie Portman was terrible, she was ok in Phantom Menace but her performance got worse through the prequels, part of it was script, part of it was she was miscast in the role.
Hayden was incredibly wooden, there's no doubt he tried, he excelled in the light saber scenes and anything requiring athleticism, but outside of one movie HC just isn't very good in any role that requires dramatic readings. He did look like what everyone thought Anakin Skywalker should look like.