Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker exhibiting up in The Mandalorian stays one of many largest surprises in Star Wars historical past, and Rosario Dawson informed us at Star Wars Celebration that she had no thought his cameo was occurring till Hamill walked onto the set of The Book of Boba Fett.
It’s already been revealed that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau had used Jedi Master Plo Koon as a decoy when attempting to cover Luke’s cameo, however throughout our chat additionally they helped share the hilarious story of how Dawson had one of many largest surprises of her profession as a result of, by chance, nobody informed her the reality of what was occurring.
To hold this megaton secret, the scripts involving Luke had him changed by Plo Koon, and Dawson was no exception to this safeguard towards potential leaks. She recalled studying about Plo Koon’s arrival within the script for The Book of Boba Fett, and it confused her simply as a lot as it will have for any Star Wars fan as a result of all of us noticed the Jedi Master tragically meet his finish in Revenge of the Sith.
“I used to be like… I do not know… however folks disappear after which they arrive again, so possibly it is attainable?” Dawson stated. “And then Mark Hamill was on set and shocked me and it was a complete factor. He even stated, ‘Plo Koon? That would not even make sense!’ and I’m like, ‘I do know it did not make sense, however I nonetheless needed to suppose it made sense as a result of I bought the script and all the things!’
Favreau and Filoni instantly shared their remorse over not telling her sooner, saying, “That was dangerous on us!”
“I feel we assumed you’d gotten informed the correct info,” Filoni added with amusing. “We have been in it a lot.”
“There have been two secrets and techniques we knew we needed to carry on the present,” Favreau stated. “One was Grogu’s reveal on the finish of the primary episode, and the opposite one was Luke Skywalker on the finish of season two. We have been biting our nails all the way in which the entire approach by means of, and we in some way miraculously made it cleanly to each of these as a result of all the things else leaked. But, sadly, we did not fill in our accomplice right here.”
Dawson laughed it off as effectively, saying, “I adore it, they know I am unable to be trusted.”
For extra, try our chat with Hayden Christensen about returning to Anakin and all the most important information from The Mandalorian & Grogu, Ahsoka, Andor panels.
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