According to Ewan McGregor, his daughter Esther Rose never once asked him to help pull some strings with Disney or "Obi-Wan Kenobi" showrunner Deborah Chow in order to get her on-board. "I'm sure everybody thinks she got the job because of me, but really she didn't," he told James Corden during his "Late Late Show" appearance. "She auditioned for the role." In fact, McGregor didn't even know about Esther's interest in appearing until Chow herself had seen the audition and informed him.
"[Chow] said to me, 'I found this great girl but she turns out to be your daughter. Are you happy with that?'" McGregor remembered her telling him. "I said that would be amazing." The former "Fargo" star went on to tell Corden that he was completely blown away by Esther's acting ability and drive. "She was just brilliant," McGregor said. "You don't really know with your kids until that moment when I was acting with her and it felt really normal and natural."
Some of Esther's other work in Hollywood, so far, includes roles in the YouTube comedy series "Resting Pitch Face" and the short films "Violet" and "The Palisades," which also stars 20-year-old celebrity kid Kaia Gerber, who is the daughter of supermodel Cindy Crawford.
