Moses Ingram

Complex sat down with Ingram for a brief chat about bringing a female villain to life in the 'Star Wars' universe, what she and Reva have in common, ...

This is the biggest that it gets.” Again, it’s really hard to wrap my brain around but every day I’m happy to be here. You can’t really think about what exactly it is. But any Jedi worth their lightsaber needs a Sith to face off against, and those who’ve seen trailers for the series know he’ll have quite a few foes to battle in his journey, including that of a Jedi Hunter named Reva, played by actor Moses Ingram. MI: Reva and I do not have a lot in common, but I think that is one of the things—to be in this business—you really gotta be able to withstand the winds and the [uncertain] terrain [that come with acting]. She is just fierce. She is not affected. It’s lit.

As the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series starts, the actor talks about hard graft, racist haters — and that time a guy got a tattoo of her face.

“Overall, there’s an outpouring of love and people want to love you and welcome you into the fold. She would, she says, “physically ache for opportunity,” and started taking the bus into New York City to hang around theatres, ambushing actors for advice. “My name is Moses, you know?” Having scrapped to get out of Baltimore, becoming Moses was the last phase of Ingram’s remaking of herself. Her birth name – which she doesn’t reveal – “didn’t fit anymore”. “And then I prayed. Ingram calls her “the heartbeat of this series”. It’s not the only area the Star Wars universe is making up for lost time. And I’m like, I’m gonna be the one that ruins it!” she says. So the word of mouth of that just went so far,” says Ingram. “It kind of felt like it was happening, but it also didn’t, because we were in lockdown. And they’ve certainly held true to that – throughout, I felt really safe.” And now it’s attached to so many personal memories and moments for me,” she says, diplomatically. It’s fun to be bad.”