Star Wars can typically really feel culturally ubiquitous, however typically 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 views 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 just lately mentioned his preliminary lack of Star Wars knowhow in a current interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Despite the fact that 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 truly meet up with the world of Star Wars till after he’d completed filming. “I wasn’t a Star Wars individual 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 mirror on one second in his Ahsoka efficiency specifically: the scenes the place Sabine Wren reunites along with her buddy after many years (and a complete galaxy) aside, catching him up with every thing 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 every thing, it simply made that scene twice as humorous,” Esfandi stated. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, that was how they stuffed Ezra in? That’s hilarious.’”
In fact, an actor doesn’t must be deeply acquainted with all of the lore to play their half nicely—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 grew to become the Galactic Empire, and he vanished off of the face of the galaxy a 12 months earlier than the occasions of A New Hope. Now that we all know he was actually in a complete different galaxy, he missed out on the majority of what Star Wars is, with no technique to compensate for it. However there’s additionally one thing deeply humorous, and extremely Ezra, concerning the considered him “uh huh, yeah, uh huh”-ing his approach by way of a fast recap of occasions by Sabine, solely to study the total extent of what occurred throughout the occasions of, nicely, Star Wars after the very fact, and discovering it totally insane.
As a result of it sort of is! Particularly to somebody like Ezra and his personal unfastened connections to the individuals who would ultimately turn out 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 dwelling and studying that it ended with Ahsoka’s outdated grasp getting redeemed by his son—and had a son within the first place—who grew to become 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 aspect bullshit with the World Between Worlds, may be very humorous to me.
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