--- description: "Can't say I'm enjoying the film," said Guinness title: Sir Alec Guinness Was No Fan of the Star Wars Dialogue image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28bdd1b0c264d050/69888ad2f887dc3a84e95036/466649177.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Star Wars](/tag/star-wars/) ## Star Wars Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sir Alec Guinness Was No Fan of the _Star Wars_ Dialogue by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2016 12:07 PM CUT  Sir Alec Guinness on the Radio 4 programme 'My Name Escapes Me : Sir Alec Guinnes', Sept 1996\. Jeff Overs—BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images Sir Alec Guinness on the Radio 4 programme 'My Name Escapes Me : Sir Alec Guinnes', Sept 1996\. Jeff Overs—BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty ImagesJeff Overs—BBC News & Current Affairs via G by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2016 12:07 PM CUT Sir Alec Guinness thought the Star Wars dialogue was “rubbish,” a new letter reveals. “New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable,” the late actor wrote in letters to a friend during the taping of the 1977 movie. Oscar Issac, who plays Poe Dameron in _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ read the letter at a Sunday event that calls on actors and performers to read correspondence to a crowd. The event is called Letters Live. It continues at [London’s Freemasons’ Hall](http://letterslive.com/event/letters-live-at-freemasons-hall-2016/ "undefined") through March 15. Guinness, who played Obi Wan Kenobi in the epic franchise, trash-talked the film to his friend Anne Kauffman, according to [_BBC News_](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35800241 "undefined"). In one letter, he appears to call out Harrison Ford, though he flubbed the actors name in his writing. He referenced working alongside a “Mark Hamill and Tennyson (that can’t be right) Ford. Ellison? No! Well a rangy, languid man who is probably intelligent and amusing.” \[[BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35800241 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4257381/sir-alec-guinness-was-no-fan-of-the-star-wars-dialogue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4257381/sir-alec-guinness-was-no-fan-of-the-star-wars-dialogue/"},"headline":"Sir Alec Guinness Was No Fan of the Star Wars Dialogue","datePublished":"2016-03-14T12:07:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:51:57.778Z","description":"\"Can't say I'm enjoying the film,\" said Guinness","url":"https://time.com/4257381/sir-alec-guinness-was-no-fan-of-the-star-wars-dialogue/","keywords":["Star Wars","movies","celebrities","Star Wars topic","entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28bdd1b0c264d050/69888ad2f887dc3a84e95036/466649177.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28bdd1b0c264d050/69888ad2f887dc3a84e95036/466649177.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"My Name Escapes Me : Sir Alec Guinness Reads (Radio 4)","caption":"My Name Escapes Me : Sir Alec Guinness Reads (Radio 4)","creditText":"Jeff Overs—BBC News & Current Affairs via G","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/star-wars/","name":"Star Wars"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4257381/sir-alec-guinness-was-no-fan-of-the-star-wars-dialogue/","name":"Sir Alec Guinness Was No Fan of the Star Wars Dialogue"}}]}] ```