OBI-WAN KENOBI: Newly Revealed BTS Footage Shows Moses Ingram Training For Standout Darth Vader Battle

OBI-WAN KENOBI: Newly Revealed BTS Footage Shows Moses Ingram Training For Standout Darth Vader Battle

In the penultimate episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Moses Ingram's Reva finally attempted to take her revenge on Darth Vader. This awesome behind-the-scenes footage shows the work that went into that sequence...

By JoshWilding - Jun 28, 2022 11:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Source: SFFGazette.com

It would have been easy for Obi-Wan Kenobi to keep the focus solely on the Jedi Master's battle with Darth Vader, but Lucasfilm chose to throw Sith Inquisitors into the mix (villains we've seen in Star Wars Rebels and Jedi: Fallen Order). The results were interesting, with The Grand Inquisitor sidelined early on and the focus instead shifted to Moses Ingram's Reva. 

Unfortunately, the actor was bombarded with racist abuse early on, prompting both Lucasfilm and Ewan McGregor to speak out in defence of Ingram joining this Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Those attacks were reprehensible, but Ingram would prove the haters wrong with a solid performance and compelling story arc that saw Reva revealed as a survivor of Order 66. While we don't know exactly how she was enlisted into the ranks of the Empire's Sith Inquisitors, the villain had spent years plotting her revenge on Darth Vader for his role in the death of her fellow Jedi Younglings. 

She failed, but only after an absolutely thrilling lightsaber battle against the Sith Lord. 

Vader used the Force to repel Reva's attacks and then fought the new "Grand Inquisitor" with her own lightsaber, seemingly not deeming her worthy of his own blade. Once again, he left her for dead, though Reva survived and her story looks set to continue elsewhere. 

In the video below, we see Ingram training for this fight against Vader, and you might be surprised by how many of her own stunts the actor performed for this memorable sequence. In fact, it appears a stuntwoman/stand-in was needed for relatively little of the clash, and that could go some way towards explaining why it worked so well in Obi-Wan Kenobi's standout penultimate episode. 

We don't know when or where Ingram's Reva will show up again, though Andor is a solid possibility seeing as it will consist of a whopping 24 episodes across two seasons. 

Check out this awesome training video (via SFFGazette.com) below:
 

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UGLYsonic
UGLYsonic - 6/28/2022, 11:19 PM
I still say Reva should have been the antagonist of a second season so they could focus on her origin and relationship to Obi-Wan and Anakin more, and just given us 100% focus on Anakin and Obi-Wan this first season. We needed more flash backs, more Anakin as Vader, more Obi-Wan wrestling with his guilt. The whole babysitting aspect and Reva taking most of the villain screen time COMPLETELY pulled all the focus off of Obi-Wan and Vaders relationship which ruined this show for me. And I don't think Baby Leia or Reva are bad plot threads, just bad for season 1 which should have focused 100% on Obi-Wan and Vader/Anakin. Once we got that need filled, season 2 should have been Vader switching his tactics and using Reva's tragic story against Obi-Wan, and then the Reva kidnapping Leia story.

This show just had bad writing and cringe worthy directing by Chow. Everything felt small and boring and not very well thought out.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 6/28/2022, 11:33 PM
The Mickey Mouse hair tho. Very fitting.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 6/28/2022, 11:48 PM
Saw this the other day. The lady got skills. These stunt previs teams are doing some amazing work. You should see the Shang-Chi previs. They basically have everything but the sets, wardrobe and lighting.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 6/29/2022, 12:32 AM
Jesus it looks better here than it did on [frick]ing TV. This is what happens when you hold a camera so that the audience can see the action as it unfolds. This is SICK. it was so over edited with so many quick cuts. Same for the Obi Wan fights.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 6/29/2022, 1:44 AM
So let me see if I understand this.

- Youngling Reva gets run through with a light saber as a child and survives.
Damaged internal organs, damaged spine, doesn’t matter. She survives because the script said so.
- She hides along the bodies because Anakin, über powerful can’t detect that she is still alive? “She was alive, I felt it.”
- Then she trains herself in the force to become good enough to be chosen as an Inquisitor. No Jedi master. No Sith Master. ALL by herself like Shang Chi’s sister. Just trains herself.
- Then she gets run through with a light saber again and survives AGAIN.
But the Grand Inquisitor survived too so either they are super powerful, the light saber is not as deadly as it was in the prequel trilogy or Qui Gonnwas a wuss because he died after being run through.

And I thought Rey was the Mary Sue.
Cobalt416
Cobalt416 - 6/29/2022, 2:29 AM
@TyrantBossMedia - I’ve used the word convenient to describe Reva. The plot works to her advantage so much that it’s just convenient.
1. How did she know that kidnapping Leia, the daughter of a random senator, would draw out Obi-Wan? How was Reva aware of this connection? Again, because it was convenient to use Reva in this manner.
2. Why didn’t any of the other Inquisitors or Vader strike Reva down for her repeated instances of insolence? She flat out disrespects her superiors and they let her get away with it. Why? Because it’s convenient that she survives. I personally thought this weakened Vader as a character the more it happened. A
3. How on gods green earth does she know half the shit she knows? She reaches the other side of the tunnel in episode three before Leia? She knew to put a tracker on Lola? She managed to travel from one planet with a critical injury before Obi-Wan or Vader who managed to leave before she did? Convenience.
4. My favorite on this list, how does she survive all of the injuries and so on? Because the writers didn’t care to think it through and so conveniently continued writing her into the show. They doubled-down after writing themselves into a corner.
I know it sounds like nitpicking, and a lot of it is, but I was not impressed with this character. Not the actor. Her performance was serviceable, but I genuinely hope they just let her fade into obscurity within the SW franchise.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 6/29/2022, 3:46 AM
That shaky cam and editing really did it no favors in the final product.

Anyway, I liked how much of a juggernaut Vader was that episode. Pulls a ship out of the sky with no effort, fights Reva like she's a nuisance at best, and then buggers off.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 6/29/2022, 7:20 AM
Lol her hairstyle is so cute in this
Blastaar
Blastaar - 6/29/2022, 9:54 AM
Her character didn't seem "Broken" enough, and her design is TOO clean. She looks WAY too PRETTY and CLEAN, to have sympathy for her. They should've designed her to have some cybernetics or be injured in some way, one eye a huge scar or something.
Some actors can elevate a mediocrely written character, but its a HARD task if your given such a NEW but HIGH profile character by such a big studio and franchise, you don't want to act like you know more than the studio, so it's a difficult task. Not only THAT but her trying to "sneak up" behind Vader was poorly written, she'd know that Vader would feel what she's about to do, setting him up from a DISTANCE would've been SMARTER and more cunning. What made her think that she could LITERALLY beat Vader, whom almost everyone else feared?

Bad writing
Blastaar
Blastaar - 6/29/2022, 9:55 AM
She reminds me of Janelle Monae...A LOT.
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