Alec Guinness's 100th birthday – "those bloody awful, banal lines…"

Alec Guinness's 100th birthday was last month.

"Guinness said in a 1999 interview that it was actually his idea to kill off Obi-Wan... 'What I didn't tell Lucas was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo.'"

Letter to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars: https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/451330255244902400/...