Ahmed Best played Jar Jar Binks in 1999's The Phantom Menace, the first mainline Star Wars movie since 1983's Return of the Jedi. Immediately, the character was decried as awful, stupid ...

Alamy Ahmed Best was in his mid-20s when he first played Jar Jar, and a tide of vitriol was unleashed Actor Frank Oz, a puppeteer who voiced the Jedi master Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back (1980 ...

Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and the rest of the Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace cast loved Ahmed Best's Jar Jar Binks voice despite it not going down well with fans.

That was Ahmed Best, who originally did all the performance capture and voicework for Jar Jar Binks back in the prequels. Like Jake Lloyd who played Anakin, Best was endlessly bullied just for ...

“Ahmed Best, known to many fans as Jar Jar Binks from the Star Wars prequels, hosts the show as a new Jedi, Master Kelleran Beq. Best guides players through three rounds of trials as they vie to ...