padawanlost:

“As
you watch Anakin slide down, how about if you take one step forward,” Lucas suggests. “For a moment, you think about it. Your first impulse is to save him –
but then you realize you can’t”.
As the
takes multiply and the actors find their rhythm and emotions, the scene becomes
more and more powerful. Christensen yells “I hate you!”.
McGregor
says, “I love you. But I will not help you”. Lucas explains that what Obi-wan’s
really saying to Anakin is: “Your were our only hope and you blew it.
Now we don’t have any hope”.
Take. After
Anakin implores Obi-wan to save him, George asks Ewan to say “I will not…
softer, almost to himself. Take. “After he burst into flames,” Lucas directs, “it’s
as if you’re talking to a dead person. To a piece of toast”. He
suggests, to drive home this point, that McGregor change the words in the
script to the past tense, “I loved you.” – The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith