Finding a Star Wars fan who loves Jar-Jar Binks is about as easy as winning the lottery, and the character has become perhaps the most despised character in the entire franchise. While George Lucas ditched the Gungan in the follow-ups to The Phantom Menace, actor Ahmed Best has never been able to escape the role, and has now made it clear that he'll never return to voice Jar-Jar again (despite lending his voice to The Clone Wars a few years back). "No, I think I’ve done my damage," he says in the video above. "Yeah. I’m good with where I stand in the Star Wars universe. I don’t need to do that. I’m not really interested in coming back. I did what I did, I thought it was great, I thought it was fun, and now it’s time to move on."
Best goes into great detail in the video above about how it felt to see the tide turn against Jar-Jar and the work which went into bringing the character to life years before Andy Serkis mastered motion capture effects, and says that the rage from faboys did hurt even though he understands why they reacted that way. "When [fans] see a character that’s purely comical, and purely for the children, they felt probably a bit condescended to. And I can understand how they wanted more a more serious story. But on the same token, the children really liked it." I was a child when I saw The Phantom Menace and hated Jar-Jar, so I'm not sure how well that argument holds up, but hey, maybe it's finally time to give the character a break, eh?
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