Star Wars can usually feel culturally ubiquitous, however generally even the individuals working in its house discover themselves inside a world they’ve little expertise with (as they need to: Star Wars thrives on the perspectives of many, and that features individuals unfamiliar with it!). However for Eman Esfandi, going again and buying that information made his Star Wars function much more enjoyable in hindsight.
Esfandi lately mentioned his preliminary lack of Star Wars knowhow in a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Though the actor was useless set on bringing Ezra to life—revealing he had informed his brokers he felt destined to painting the live-action model of the Rebels character months earlier than Lucasfilm even started auditioning the function—the actor didn’t really 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 informed THR. “However after we shot the present, I inhaled all of it for six months.” That realization made Esfandi replicate on one second in his Ahsoka efficiency particularly: the scenes the place Sabine Wren reunites together with her good friend after a long time (and an entire galaxy) aside, catching him up with everything that’s happened because the climax of Star Wars Rebels noticed Ezra exile himself and Thrawn away to components unknown.
“When Sabine was filling Ezra in, I additionally didn’t know a lot about it. As soon as I received to know every part, it simply made that scene twice as humorous,” Esfandi mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, that was how they crammed Ezra in? That’s hilarious.’”
In fact, an actor doesn’t have to be deeply accustomed to all of the lore to play their half properly—Esfandi did a reasonably 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 a whole other galaxy, he missed out on the majority of what Star Wars is, with no solution to atone for it. However there’s additionally one thing deeply humorous, and extremely Ezra, concerning the considered him “uh huh, yeah, uh huh”-ing his method by way of a fast recap of occasions by Sabine, solely to study the complete extent of what occurred through the occasions of, properly, 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 thought of Ezra watching archival holo-docs concerning the galactic civil battle after his return house and studying that it ended with Ahsoka’s old master getting redeemed by his son—and had a son in the first place—who turned the face of the Insurgent Alliance in his absence alongside that senator’s daughter he met once, or that Palpatine, as 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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