Jar Jar Binks was supposed to be the role of a lifetime for actor Ahmed Best, plucked from a percussive dance troupe and given serious screen time in George Lucas' "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ...

Also, not to sound all “Twitter” or anything, but Jar Jar is uncomfortably close to a racist caricature, like those awkward Looney Tunes scenes where Bugs Bunny would impersonate black people.

25 years ago, The Phantom Menace launched with a fully armed and operational merchandise campaign behind it—one that found a star in Jar Jar Binks.

Best appears in a new podcast, T he Redemption of Jar Jar Binks, detailing his initial excitement at winning the role. “I was an enormous Star Wars fan as a kid,” Best remembered in the podcast.

In a surprise cameo that nobody in a galaxy far, far away saw coming, Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best returned to the “Star Wars” universe in Wednesday’s episode of “The Mandalorian.” But ...

A recent Star Wars theory has become pretty viral, if just for it’s seemingly bizarre concept. The idea: Jar Jar Binks is actually the most powerful Sith Lord in the galaxy.