Some new pictures have surfaced for the upcoming Star Wars collection The Acolyte, they usually supply a primary take a look at Dafne Eager’s Padawan character, Jecki Lon.
Jecki Lon is the Padawan of Lee Jung-jae’s Jedi Grasp Sol within the collection, and when speaking about casting Eager on this function, collection creator Leslye Headland stated: “We’ve got to get Dafne, interval. I simply needed to see X23 with a lightsaber of their hand. That has to occur.”
Throughout an interview with EW, Eager provided some particulars on the character she performs saying: “Effectively, I am very excited that we all know her identify now, as a result of it was secret for thus lengthy. And I am very blissful that I get to say that she’s an alien and that she’s a Padawan and that she’s a Jedi.”
Eager goes on to say: “She’s a combined species — half Theelin, half human. She’s very cool and I’ve some very cool fights I do with the lightsaber. I actually love her. She’s an important character and was actually enjoyable to play. I am very excited that the trailer got here out. I used to be buzzing for days.”
The actress then talks about Jecki’ Lon’s relationship with Jedi Grasp Sol: “I might say she is a really devoted Padawan. She’s positively in awe of him in a really type of candy approach. She thinks absolutely the world of him in a approach that I believe they’ve a really candy relationship, however she’s way more conscious of the authority distinction than, for instance, Obi-Wan and Anakin. She’s very very like, ‘No, he is the grasp and I am the Padawan and he is excellent. And the whole lot he says, I’ve to observe to the T.’”
She additionally talked about how the character design and make-up she needed to put on influenced how she performed the character. Eager stated: “It utterly modified how I moved. It additionally utterly modified the character. Once I learn the script, I had one concept of what I used to be going to do, and it utterly modified it in a approach that I believe is way more fascinating than what I assumed.”
She continued: “I assumed she was going to be actually methodical and chilly and calculated, after which as quickly as I used to be in that make-up, she grew to become way more nonetheless methodical and a perfectionist and excessive achiever, however with way more of an ingenuity and a curiosity and a real love for the craft that’s being a Jedi.”
Eager went on to share: “Which was actually fascinating as a result of I’m somebody who strikes their eyebrows lots, and never having eyebrows utterly modifications the expression in your face. And never having eyebrows gave me a type of sweeter look, which utterly modified the character in a approach.”
The story is described as “a mystery-thriller that may take viewers right into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and techniques and rising dark-side powers within the remaining days of the Excessive Republic period.” The Excessive Republic is about 100 years earlier than the Skywalker Saga begins.
In The Acolyte, “An investigation right into a stunning crime spree pits a revered Jedi Grasp (Lee Jung-jae) towards a harmful warrior from his previous (Stenberg). As extra clues emerge, they journey down a darkish path the place sinister forces reveal all isn’t what it appears….”
The collection additionally stars Squid Sport’s Lee Jung-jaestars because the Jedi Grasp, Manny Jacinto, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett, Dean-Charles Chapman, Carrie-Anne Moss, Margarita Levieva, Joonas Suotamo, and Amy Tsang.
Stenberg beforehand talked about the collection, saying: “Within the context of the Star Wars universe, it’s a time of nice peace, theoretically. It’s additionally a time of an establishment, and it’s a time wherein conceptions across the Drive are very strict. And I believe what we’re making an attempt to discover inside our present is when an establishment has a singular conception of how energy can be utilized…we attempt to present loads of totally different views and solutions to that query. The thought is to type of honor the ethos of Star Wars and concepts across the Drive and likewise problem them, hopefully harmoniously.”
Showrunner Leslye Headland has beforehand said that The Acolyte will dedicate loads of screen-time to “the antagonists, and described it as “Frozen meets Kill Invoice.” She shared the that story shall be instructed from the attitude of the villains and is about between the Excessive Republic and the start of the prequel trilogy, “as a result of that is when the unhealthy guys are outnumbered.”
The collection is described as a “religious warfare,” and it consists of battle between siblings, and oldsters, in addition to a battle between a grasp and an apprentice. It was reiterated the mission could be very a lot impressed by samurai movies. It has been stated to give attention to the emergence of the Sith, a bunch of Darkish Jedi set on conquering the galaxy. The ‘“acolyte” time period has been used within the Star Wars universe to explain troopers for the highly effective Sith Lords.
The Acolyte may have eight episodes in whole, with Headland, Garcia Lopez, and Kogonada directing episodes of the collection. It’s set to premiere on June 4, 2024, on Disney+. Take a look at the pictures under.
