The Galaxy Star Wars never stops prospering and revealing its secrets. After The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Andor, Obi-wan Kenobi And Ahsokahere is now The Acolyte, a new series available on Disney + starting today. Only the first two episodes are posted online today. The series has eight episodes, which will be revealed at the rate of one per week, the entirety of season 1 will be available from July 17. This new fiction is set a hundred years before the events of the film Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
While the Jedi Order is at its peak and prosperity reigns in the High Republic, several mysterious crimes are being committed. Master Sol, a respected Jedi, will lead an investigation which will pit him against a dangerous warrior from his past played by Amandla Stenberg. The actress, revealed in Hunger Gamestells us more.
How do we manage to blend into the dense universe of “Star Wars”?
The creator of the series, Leslye Headland, presented me with her concept and her desire to set the action in the era of the High Republic. A period of the saga that I didn’t know much about. I knew it had already been shown in certain films, but I saw it as an opportunity to improve my knowledge in Star Wars. To achieve my goals, I mainly went to Wikipedia, which is one of my favorite places on the web. You can find so much fun information there! It’s endless and we manage to study the chronology well.
In “The Acolyte”, you play as twin sisters who are each on one side of the Force. How did you approach these characters?
When I started working on their past, I thought about some of my favorite parts of Star Wars as The Clone Wars, and the way in which this imagination was transcribed on screen. I think in particular of the Father and his children who are always in conflict with each other, with the daughter on the light side of the Force while the son is on the dark side. This helps maintain a balance between good and evil. In my opinion, Leslye drew on this theme to imagine these twin sisters. I saw them as two opposites, although we will realize in the future that a lot of magic and force surrounds them.
