UPDATE: Dave Filoni Talks Ahsokas Origin and Mentoring Sabine in Master and Apprentice Featurette

Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau, Rosario Dawson, Carrie Beck and Kathleen Kennedy all came together to talk about the Ahsoka series and detail the character's behind the scenes origin in the new Master & Apprentice featurette, first teased by IGN earlier in the day. The full featurette is embedded below.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btMQUq7kDuk&t=316



The featurette was initially teased on IGN's YouTube channel, and how the famous line of Jedi masters and apprentices is extended in the show with Ahsoka and Sabine.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKpxm_53UY



Dave Filoni spoke about how their relationship becomes the latest in a long line of famous masters and apprentices, connecting Yoda all the way to Sabine Wren.

Jon Favreau also acknowledges how important that master and apprentice trope is to Star Wars.

Carrie Beck, also acting as executive producer, points out just how old that line of very famous masters and apprentices is.

Getting away from the master and apprentice theme, Dave Filoni tells the familiar story of how Ahsoka was created, detailing his surprise when learning that George Lucas wanted to give Anakin Skywalker a padawan in The Clone Wars.

Jon Favreau spoke about their enthusiasm to bring the character of Ahsoka to live action, as they eventually did in The Mandalorian season 2, stating that 'for a character that has such depth and complexity, to bring that to live action made a tremendous amount of sense.'



They obviously wanted to get the casting right, and Kathleen Kennedy heaped praise on Rosario Dawson, who they cast in the role: 'Rosario Dawson is such an incredibly powerful actress, and she loves this character.' Rosario herself spoke about what it was like to first portray the character and how keen she was to reprise the role.

Fans will also be glad to know that Filoni understands that a series about a former Jedi needed to include lots of high quality lightsaber action.

Ahsoka comes out next week, Wednesday, August 23. There will doubtless be more featurettes and TV spots released before then, so check back in with Star Wars News Net for more Star Wars news as it breaks.

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