Jar Jar Binks was played by
Ahmed Best in the
prequel trilogy and
The Clone Warsanimated series. Viewer response to the character in
Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace was deeply negative: Best stated the criticism "hurt me emotionally and it was hard to take at the time, [although] it wasn't debilitating for me. I just put my shoes on and went back to work." In response to the negativity,
George Lucas jokingly titled the first draft of
Episode II "
Jar Jar's Great Adventure."
Thanks to the negative criticism that the character received in both
The Phantom Menace and
Attack of the Clones, Ahmed Best recommended George Lucas during the development of
Revenge of the Sith to kill off Jar Jar by writing
Anakin Skywalker to hack Binks into pieces. Although Lucas rejected Best's idea, Jar Jar's role in the finished version of the film was just reduced to a cameo with two lines, however.