Star Wars can typically really feel culturally ubiquitous, however generally even the folks working in its area discover themselves inside a world they’ve little expertise with (as they need to: Star Wars thrives on the views of many, and that features folks unfamiliar with it!). However for Eman Esfandi, going again and buying that data made his Star Wars position much more enjoyable in hindsight.
Esfandi not too long ago mentioned his preliminary lack of Star Wars knowhow in a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Regardless that the actor was lifeless set on bringing Ezra to life—revealing he had advised his brokers he felt destined to painting the live-action model of the Rebels character months earlier than Lucasfilm even started auditioning the position—the actor didn’t truly meet up with the world of Star Wars till after he’d completed filming. “I wasn’t a Star Wars particular person earlier than the present. I simply didn’t develop up on it,” Esfandi advised THR. “However after we shot the present, I inhaled all of it for six months.” That realization made Esfandi mirror on one second in his Ahsoka efficiency particularly: the scenes the place Sabine Wren reunites together with her pal after a long time (and an entire galaxy) aside, catching him up with the whole lot that’s occurred because the climax of Star Wars Rebels noticed Ezra exile himself and Thrawn away to elements unknown.
“When Sabine was filling Ezra in, I additionally didn’t know a lot about it. As soon as I received to know the whole lot, it simply made that scene twice as humorous,” Esfandi stated. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, that was how they crammed Ezra in? That’s hilarious.’”
In fact, an actor doesn’t need to be deeply conversant in all of the lore to play their half effectively—Esfandi did a fairly stellar job bringing an older Ezra to life in Ahsoka, no matter his familiarity with the supply materials in that second. If something, that lack of familiarity works for the character: in any case, Ezra was born the day the Republic turned the Galactic Empire, and he vanished off of the face of the galaxy a yr earlier than the occasions of A New Hope. Now that we all know he was actually in an entire different galaxy, he missed out on the majority of what Star Wars is, with no solution to compensate for it. However there’s additionally one thing deeply humorous, and extremely Ezra, in regards to the considered him “uh huh, yeah, uh huh”-ing his means by means of a fast recap of occasions by Sabine, solely to be taught the complete extent of what occurred in the course of the occasions of, effectively, Star Wars after the actual fact, and discovering it totally insane.
As a result of it type of is! Particularly to somebody like Ezra and his personal free connections to the individuals who would finally grow to be the movers and shakers of galaxy-changing occasions. The concept of Ezra watching archival holo-docs in regards to the galactic civil warfare after his return house and studying that it ended with Ahsoka’s previous grasp getting redeemed by his son—and had a son within the first place—who turned the face of the Insurgent Alliance in his absence alongside that senator’s daughter he met as soon as, or that Palpatine, so far as he knew, by no means managed to do some darkish facet bullshit with the World Between Worlds, could be very humorous to me.
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