OMG! 😱😱😱 WE ARE GETTING MORE JEDI THAN EVER! AND THE ACOLYTE FINALLY MADE SW RACIALLY DIVERSE!
Jul 16, 2023 5:08 AM
Leslye Headland was on the Entertainment Weekly Dagobah Dispatch podcast where she discussed The Acolyte.
What makes this show different and interesting is it's from the perspective of the bad guys or the villains of Star Wars. These are people who are using the Force in their own way, dipping into the darker sides of the Force, and are doing it without being sanctioned by the larger institution – which in this case is the Jedi. I just thought it was very interesting to do a show about the bad guys."
Headland talked about how the viewers will see the enemy’s drive and motivations fleshed out as the plot escalates.
"It's almost flipped. We have more Jedi than you've seen in any of the Star Wars content, but at the same time I think you see more morally ambiguous characters than you’ve seen in other Star Wars content."
Hmm...🤔...more Jedi than we seen in any Star Wars content anybody remember this....
There's thirteen Jedi in the arena battle outside of the arena we had even more in the Battle of Geonosis. ☹️ There's no way Headland is topping this. Headland also said fans will not be disappointed when it comes to intense action sequences.
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"I think I can say this pretty confidently: I don’t think you’re going to see action in other shows the way you see it and utilized in our show."
Ok time to move on to Amanda Stenberg's comments on the same podcast. She had the following to say...
"It's really exciting, You see the progress that Star Wars is making across the board in all of the streaming series."
I smell diversity....
"When it comes to the world of fantasy and sci-fi in general, it hasn't felt like a safe space always for people of color," Stenberg says. "And it's been a world that I've always deeply loved and been invested in. So to be in any way, shape, or form a part of the wave that is ushering in inclusion and safety for Black nerds, it's my dream come true."
OMG! 😱 There's never been black people in Star Wars before!🙄🙄🙄 Oh but this podcast gets better Stenberg's co-star Jodie Turner Smith jumped on the diversity train with her.
"Definitely something I noticed and was really excited about, and was one of the reasons that I chose to step into the world."
Turner Smith had more to say....
"I also really loved that that our show was much more woman-centered than what I have previously seen in the Star Wars world," she told the Dagobah Dispatch. "Just from the fact that our incredible showrunner Leslye is a genius woman, and the female producers and having Amandla be the person who's leading our cast — it was a very cool way into this universe, and a way that I feel that people have never necessarily seen before, other than they're going see Rosario in an amazing woman-centered show as well."
More from Turner Smith....
"I feel like we are part of a wave of more inclusive and beautifully represented Star Wars shows. So that felt really cool. And I felt the importance of that, especially in some of the stuff that I got to where everyone really was excited about what they were seeing and what that would maybe mean for different fans — fans that don't necessarily look like what you normally think the traditional Star Wars fan looks like. Because if there's anything that I learned from this show, it's that the Star Wars fan is varied."
Dafne Keen also made comments on the matter.
"That was definitely a conversation we've had on set," Keen says. "It's really refreshing to walk onto a set as diverse as this one in every sense. We've all come from different corners of the world and it's really great to get so many different people from different backgrounds to create this thing together."
Oh wait but there's more....
Charlie Barnett regurgitated Amanda Stenberg's comments...
"I don't think I could have ever imagined myself as a Jedi," Barnett says. "Because I was not reflected for so many times throughout these films in the past. So to see such a diverse group now, I think it's going be a really impactful. It's gonna be [a] cool moment for me for sure, I can tell you that."
OMG! 😱 We never had a black Jedi before! We all imagined this....
George Lucas you racist bastard. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But wait there's more! We finally got ASIAN REPRESENTATION IN STAR WARS NOW! Manny Jacinto spoke about Lee Jung-jae.
"If I'm being candid, this is the first time you're getting to see an Asian Jedi," Jacinto says. "It's a pretty big responsibility. Getting to see him inspire a new generation of Asian kids to like take up the lightsaber — it's pretty incredible."
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