Two television docu-series followed: Long Way Round in 2004 (London to New York via Eurasia and North America), and Long Way Down in 2007 (18 countries in Europe and Africa to Cape Town in South Africa), that chronicled their adventures and bromance together. And even though Charley and I are clearly devout riders, we wanted all our ‘Long Way’ trips to have the flavor of that book,” he says. “Out of nowhere, people turn up with Star Wars things to be signed! We only realised later there happened to be a Star Wars fan event. Finally, we were in a restaurant mobbed by people waiting to click pictures,” laughs Ewan, who played the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Source: The Hindu September 12, 2020 07:33 UTC