Ahmed Best probably popped open the champagne when he learned he’d gotten a lead role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Fans had waited sixteen years for a new big-screen Star Wars adventure, George Lucas was back in the driving seat, and the 25-year-old Best was lined up to play a character that would break new grounds in CGI technology. Unfortunately for him (and us) said character was the excruciatingly annoying Jar Jar Binks.
Binks’ quasi-racist slapstick was met with instant disgust and he’s widely considered to be one of the worst characters in Star Wars. Best was clearly deeply affected by the avalanche of hatred for Binks, saying in 2018 that it got so bad he contemplated suicide:
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