Natasha Liu Bordizzo on How Sabine’s Driving Force in ‘Ahsoka’ Is Keeping the Promise She Made to Ezra
As part of Empire Magazine’s coverage of Ahsoka, the publication spoke to Natasha Liu Bordizzo about her approach to bringing Sabine Wren to live-action in the new series; they have also revealed a new still picture from the series (see above).
Rosario Dawson has hinted before that Ahsoka’s main motivation in the show is to find Grand Admiral Thrawn, while Sabine’s goal is to find Ezra, because she has a promise to keep. As Liu Bordizzo told Empire:
“She feels an obligation to him. When they freed Lothal, she was given this hero status. But she doesn’t feel that she’s earned that because she lost her friend in that whole debacle. She’s just focused on the promise she made to him to find him.”
Dave Filoni also talked about the character’s jump to live-action and how he had set it up as the main creative challenge to overcome when he was to continue telling the story:
“Even at the time I did the Rebels epilogue, I felt like, ‘If I go forward with this, this has to be challenging in another way.’ And the challenge was going to be live-action. I wanted to resolve these things with [Ahsoka], but I wanted to do something new with it.”
The new series has a lot going on, from the introduction of the entire Rebels gang into live-action to the continuation of the Ahsoka story first set up in The Mandalorian season 2 and The Book of Boba Fett, not to mention everything that came before for the character. Lars Mikkelsen will be introduced as Grand Admiral Thrawn, a character that is expected to play a pivotal part going forward in these New Republic Era-set shows and ultimately the theatrical event that will culminate the story.
As far as the new picture above goes, it’s worth noting that it looks like we are getting two radically-different hairstyles from Sabine Wren in the show, long- and short-haired. Since she had long hair during the epilogue of Rebels, perhaps the long-haired scenes are from scenes that take place pre-epilogue.
Ahsoka is currently targeting an August release date, though we still don’t have a specific date.
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.
