Pink Scorching Chilli Peppers bassist Flea’s newest performing function was revealed to be a bounty hunter in new Star Wars collection Obi-Wan Kenobi, which started airing on Disney+ yesterday.
Rumors had been circulating for a number of weeks that he’d be seen within the present, which stars Ewan McGregor because the Jedi grasp charged with defending Luke Skywalker from Darth Vader and the Empire.
Within the clips from the opening episode beneath, Flea is seen because the villain Vect Nokru, who’s been employed to kidnap a younger Princess Leia, and seems to have gotten away together with his crime. Nevertheless, the character’s exit comes earlier than the tip of the second episode.
Actual identify Michael Balzary, Flea has been showing in motion pictures for almost so long as he’s been well-known as a musician. He’s seen in two Again to the Future motion pictures, The Huge Lebowski, My Personal Personal Idaho, Worry and Loathing in Las Vegas and lots of others.
“When one thing comes up and it’s fascinating and I’ve the time, I’ll do it,” he informed Grantland in 2014. “At this level in my life, I’ve to imagine in it to need to do it. It’s not identical to, ‘Performing is enjoyable; it’s enjoyable to go play faux.’ If it’s some people who I respect doing a mission that I imagine in, then I’m down for it, if time permits. However I’m not on the market pursuing performing gigs.”
He added that he discovered it straightforward to channel “one thing that’s means greater than me” when he performed music, explaining: “[A]ll the work that I do as a musician is to get myself right into a place so I can… let this factor stream via me. As an actor I’ve at all times struggled to do this. It’s at all times been extra of a cerebral train.”
Watch Flea in ‘Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi’
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