7 Star Wars Actors Who Quit

Denis Lawson played X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy, though in the decades that followed the actor largely swore off the franchise, only lending his voice to the 2001 video game Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader.

In fact, leading up to the release of The Force Awakens, rumours began swirling that Lawson would finally reprise the role of Wedge in live-action form, only for him to bluntly reply that he was done with the series:

"I'm not going to do that...They asked me but it just would have bored me."

More recently, Lawson's nephew Ewan McGregor - who of course plays the younger version of Obi-Wan - suggested that his uncle isn't too fond of the entire circus of fandom surrounding the franchise:

"[Lawson] was always really dismissive of it because he did a couple of weeks' work, sitting in a cardboard spaceship… and yet he had this massive following. It sort of annoyed him."

However, in an unexpected twist of fate, Lawson did indeed return for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo as Wedge in The Rise of Skywalker, and has since lent his voice to the Star Wars: Squadrons video game and also an episode of the animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions.

Evidently, while Lawson did largely quit Star Wars for the better part of four decades, money talks.