Katee Sackhoff is spilling why her appearance as Bo-Katan worked so well.
The former Battlestar Galactica star opened up on how it felt reprising the Mandalorian warrior’s role in live-action on The Mandalorian, where she hopes the character goes and discusses the all-female fighting squad scene from the finale.
Bo’s return
Sackhoff first voiced the role of Bo-Katan for the Clone Wars cartoon. Part of Clan Kryze, Bo-Katan was the younger sister of Duchess Satine, the ruler of Mandalore.
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While Satine was more a pacifist, Bo embraced her warrior side, which led to conflict yet loyalty between the sisters. Sackhoff would return to voice the role in the Star Wars Rebels animated series as Bo-Katan is now fighting to free Mandalore from Imperial forces.
‘The Mandalorian’ Stunt Coordinator Reveals Secrets Behind the Lightsaber Duels Aaron Couch Katee Sackhoff (as Bo-Katan Kryze), Gina Carano (as Cara Dune), Ming-Na Wen (as Fennec) and Mercedes Varnado (as Koska Reeves) fight Stormtroopers in The Mandalorian Chapter 16.
Season two of hit Disney+ series
The Mandalorian sees its two breakout stars, the title character bounty hunter (played by Pedro Pascal) and Grogu (better known on the internet as Baby Yoda), heading deeper into the
Star Wars universe and with greater exploration comes greater stunts.
“We knew what we were getting into, but we couldn’t help it,” says Ryan Watson, the Emmy-winning stunt coordinator for the series, which saw its second season bring a “bigger scope of action” with harder fights, more complex sets and higher-flying villains. Watson, who won an Emmy for his work on
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The Mandalorian director Peyton Reed says he felt an extreme sense of responsibility when helming the blockbuster season 2 finale and he couldn t live with himself if he turned it down. In Chapter 16: The Rescue, written by showrunner Jon Favreau, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his allies mount a daring rescue mission taking them aboard Moff Gideon s (Giancarlo Esposito) Imperial light cruiser. Their charge: find and reclaim Grogu, the Force-sensitive child stolen from Djarin on the planet Tython. After stepping into the
Star Wars galaxy with
Ant-Man filmmaker describes returning to helm the action-packed season finale: As an almost lifelong
Star Wars fan, I don t think I could have lived with myself if I turned down doing that finale, Reed says in the
The Mandalorian as the highest-rated episode of the Jon Favreau-created series on
IMDb. In Chapter 16: The Rescue, written by Favreau and directed by Peyton Reed, the armored Mando Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) hunts down the Imperial light cruiser carrying a captive Grogu. The Force-sensitive Child is the prisoner of the Darksaber-wielding Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), making him a target for Mandalorians Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) and Koska Reeves (Mercedes Varnado). The Mandalorians mount their daring rescue with allies Cara Dune (Gina Carano), Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), and Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), pitting them against Gideon s squadron of droid Dark Troopers.