New ‘Ahsoka’ Behind-the-Scenes Footage Revealed; Natasha Liu Bordizzo Teases Complex Sabine-Ahsoka Dynamics at the Beginning of the Series
Lucasfilm has revealed a brand-new featurette that spotlights Rosario Dawson’s journey to becoming Ahsoka, from the initial online campaign to her episode in The Mandalorian to now the upcoming series. While no new footage from the series appears in the 90-second clip, in the second half of the video we get to see new behind-the-scenes moments captured while shooting the series.
Check it out here:
We were supposed to get a new look at the show during the Fourth of July weekend, at the Essence Festival of Culture, but that never happened. We don’t know if this is what we would have gotten that day, but regardless, we are around the time when we should expect a new trailer to drop imminently.
In related news, Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Sabine Wren) spoke to SFX Magazine about the series, teasing that her character will have some complex character interactions with Ahsoka by the time they meet again at the beginning of the series. She said:
“I think there’s a deep level of respect that Sabine has for Ahsoka, as someone to learn from. In the show they’ve been through a lot in the time that has passed, some of which we know about, some of which we don’t. Their quests kind of end up overlapping, bringing them back together, and there’s tension and there’s things they’ve been through that they need to work out. Their reunion’s interesting!”
Both Dawson and Bordizzo have talked before about their respective missions in the series, and how they are aligned but also clash with one another. In the narrative, we know that Ahsoka is focused on hunting down Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen), while Sabine wants to live up to the promise she made Ezra (Eman Esfandi) at the end of Star Wars: Rebels. Ezra and Thrawn went missing at the end of the fourth season of the animated show, and Sabine and Ahsoka reunited during the epilogue to go look for them. That is the story of the upcoming series.
Ahsoka is coming out on Disney Plus on August 23.
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.
