It’s an popular antidote within Star Wars trivia circles that Sir Alec Guinness hated Star Wars and despised his role in the films, but is this really the case? Did Sir Alec Guinness truly despise Star Wars because he viewed Sci-Fi as a “lesser art form” and was distraught from the knowledge that his role would outshine his other Shakespearean work? The short answer is no.
Sir Alec Guinness did not hate Star Wars. The actor, like many of his colleagues, simply viewed it as job. Nothing more and nothing less. So where did the notion that he hated Star Wars spawn from? Well you see Sir Guinness, while viewing Star Wars itself as an innocent film series in of itself, was distraught that a certain portion of its fans had their lives consumed by the franchise. He didn’t like that some folks were ruining there lives via their obsession with a fictional Galaxy. It’s a similar situation to how J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t appreciate it that hippies were styling their lives off of his book series, it wasn’t a hatred of the Fanbase at large or the setting in general.
