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Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Best Recalls Nearly Committing Suicide After Star Wars Backlash
How harrowing. While landing a role in a Star Wars movie is a dream to many, it quickly became a nightmare for Best. The ...
Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best recalls suicidal moment during fan backlash in docuseries 'Light & Magic': 'I thought it was my fault'
Best hopes his ordeal has helped people understand that even with CGI characters, you shouldn't act "like the actors don’t ...
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Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Best's Recent Comments Show The True Challenge Facing Star Wars
Ahmed Best shared his experience of the backlash to the prequel trilogy and his character, Jar Jar Binks, and it's a larger ...
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605 Pop Culture Con: Sit down with Ahmed Best aka Jar Jar Binks
For our next celebrity interview from the Voices Against Cancer 605 Pop Culture Con, we sat down with the extremely talented ...
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‘I Thought It Was My Fault’: Star Wars Actor Recalls Nearly Ending His Life Over Jar Jar Binks Backlash
Ahmed Best recalls his life's darkest moment after the backlash to his portrayal of Jar Jar Binks in 1999's Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
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Star Wars: Jar Jar Binks Returns in 'Age of Republic Special' Comic
Earlier this year, actor Ahmed Best revealed that the backlash he received for playing Jar Jar led him to contemplate suicide, which then resulted in an uprising of fans who shared their support ...
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Interesting people doing interesting things
On today’s show we sat down with Ahmed Best to learn what inspired his role as Jar Jar Binks. We learned how to make a mental ...