‘The Mandalorian’ Cast on the Themes Season 3 Will Explore
Entertainment Weekly has released a new video interview with the main cast of The Mandalorian season 3 as well as director and executive producer Rick Famuyiwa. The video was filmed after the Lucasfilm panel at D23 in September. At the time, the teaser trailer for the third season had just been released on YouTube. The crew talked about what it was like shooting for the new season, and what we should expect in terms of story and themes.
Famuyiwa said the following about where the character’s journey has been up until this point, and how that is being expanded into new territory with the third season:
“The exciting part about Mandalorian is that it started with this very simple and sort of elemental relationship when the Mandalorian met this young child and how it’s affected him. And I think all the decisions he’s made since coming in contact with The Child has sort of raised the stakes in terms of the storytelling of the show, and we’ve just been following that to sort of its natural place as he’s experienced meeting people outside of his own creed and understanding what it means to be a Mandalorian. So as we get to season 3, it’s really a sort of culmination of that. We’ve started with our original Mandalorian but as the teaser said, he’s not the only one. And what does that mean? So this season is really about kind of bringing all that together.”
Katee Sackhoff added the following:
“Coming into this season, Bo has some clear ideas about who she believes to be a real Mandalorian, and I think that is a really important place for her to start. She was raised one way, she thinks one very clear way, and her knowledge of that is being challenged. One of the things about Bo that I love and we see a lot of this season is that she’s always growing and she’s always evolving. And I think that’s a really beautiful lesson.”
Emily Swallow, who plays the Armorer, and who might have a larger role in the new season, also jumped in:
“One of the things that I really appreciate about the Armorer is that she never shies away from a challenge. She’s most of the time enjoyed seeing someone else have to deal with challenges, but I don’t think she shies away from them for herself, and I think she… I think we all enjoy watching other people work through challenges because we get to see them learn and that sort of encourages us to learn because… So we’ll get to see these characters learn.”
Giancarlo Esposito then gave the following beautiful speech about what the show means to him in terms of its themes and storytelling in general:
“Moff Gideon would really like to be a Mandalorian, and there’s a reason for it. That’s his psychological, real problem. He really wants to be a Mandalorian because the strength and power of the Mandalorians is not necessarily that they are individuals. It’s that they are part of a group that have an ideal and a morality. And that to me is really powerful in our story. This journey this guy takes [points to Pedro Pascal] in such a beautiful way is the struggle, and we hear it in his voice and we see it in his body. There’s something about duty and being in service and action that galvanizes him to have to do it. And within that, like ‘Oh I’m done now, I’m done. But no, because wait a minute, I still have to learn something about who? Me!’ And it’s phenomenal. And how do you resist that unjaded personality that allows you to see where you came from? How can you resist that? You hate that little child for a minute, you hate that, because it’s showing you what you were. And then you became this f*ng warrior. So all of these elements of the story really intrigue me and allow me to be really thankful and grateful to be in this universe.”
The crew then discussed amongst them for a few minutes what it’s like to wear the Mandalorian suits and how their performances change with and without the helmet. You can check out the entire video here:
The Mandalorian season 3 is scheduled to hit Disney Plus in February 2023. As we lead into it, we at Star Wars News Net are revisiting the first two seasons through the concept art for each episode, releasing a new article every Thursday. You can check them out here, and look forward to Chapter 5 this week!
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
