In these times, you should never underestimate the power of the fans. A good example is that of the actress with Puerto Rican and Cuban roots Rosario Dawson. When an enthusiastic fan uploaded a photo of her transformed into the flesh and blood version of Ahsoka, the Jedi apprentice from the planet Shili who had become popular in the animated series Star Wars: the Clone Wars, the actress responded with a forceful “yes, please”, as a comment, adding the hashtag
Some time later, Filoni was invited to join the team of The Mandalorian as executive producer, writer and director, Disney's first big bet to create series about the Star Wars universe. And in season two, when it came time for Ahsoka to appear as an adult in one episode, Jon Favreau asked Filoni who he envisioned in the character. His response was blunt: "Rosario Dawson." He certainly did not disappoint.
The impact of her participation was enormous, so this actress, who at the age of 15 was discovered by director Larry Clark at the door of her New York home and invited to participate in the controversial 1995 film Kids, was summoned to come back to appear as the same character in an episode of The Book of Bobba Feet.
But Filoni had much more to tell about Ahsoka, and that is why on August 23 a series entirely dedicated to her arrives at Disney. Following the study's line, which has allowed other Latino actors such as Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna to shine in leading roles, Dawson will show us Ahsoka Tano at a different time in her life, now a teacher.
Although in the animated series she renounced being a Jedi and later chose to be a kind of independent samurai, always interested in preventing the evil Grand Admiral Thrawn from achieving his goals, in the new eight-episode proposal, it will be she who must teach Sabine everything. Bren, played by the young Australian actress Natasha Liu Bordizzo.
The relationship between the two is the axis of the story, in which there is no shortage of fights with lightsabers, for which both Dawson, who is now 44, and Bordizzo, who is a black belt in tae-kwon-do, had She had to undergo intense training with Ming Quiu, the stunt coordinator who groomed the actors in The Mandalorian and even had a role as Jedi Minas Velti in Obi Wan Kenobi.
Danish Lars Mikkelsen, Mads' older brother and whom we remember for The Killing and for playing the Russian president in House of Cards, is in charge of the villainous Admiral Thrawn, a role he already played in the animated series Star Wars Rebels. And although he will be talked about more than we will see him, his orders will be carried out by Captain Enoch, his right hand, who is played by Wes Chatham, in his television return after the end of T. Logically there will be numerous special participations, such as Hayden Christensen who returns in an episode as Anakin Skywalker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Tennant, Ray Stevenson and Temuera Morrison.
