Everything to Know About Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series About Ahsoka Tano Series Starring Rosario Dawson
30.05.2022 - 00:23
/ usmagazine.com
It’s Ahsoka’s turn for a live-action treatment! Disney+ has slowly been rolling a slate of brand-new Star Wars series, and iit is Ahsoka Tano’s time to shine.
The streaming platform greenlit Ahsoka, inspired by the Clone Wars character. In the animated series, the fierce warrior (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) attempts to train Anakin from being an undisciplined Jedi Padawan into a humble and patient Jedi Knight. Disney since cast Rosario Dawson to portray Ahsoka in the live-action iteration, beginning with a cameo in The Mandolorian.
“Actually, it first came from fans online. Someone tweeted me and fancast me. I retweeted back and I was like, ‘Absolutely, yes please’ and ‘#AhsokaLives,’” the Rent actress told Vanity Fair in November 2020. “And apparently that got the attention of someone who has been doing the Star Wars press for years. She forwarded it to [show writer] Dave Filoni. That kind of started a whole thing. I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, did I just get fan-cast in something?’ And then nothing happened.”
She continued: “[Filoni and Jon Favreau] were just about to drop the first [season of The Mandolorian] and they had all of this art that had me as Ahsoka. They had already been preparing, knowing that they wanted to have her be a part of a story in the second season. They’d just been visualizing me in this role that whole time, and it was mind-boggling.”
Filoni, for his part, was intrigued by the fancasting choice while he was still in the early phases of script development.
“That was the first time and I looked at Rosario and I thought, ‘Huh. Yeah, I think maybe she would make a good Ahsoka,’” he told Vanity Fair at the time. “I just kept loosely aware of what she was up to, and she was doing some Marvel things. But I’d