We’re racing towards the arrival of The Acolyte on 4th / 5th June and the big ticket media outlets are starting to get their questions in with the stars of the show. Stay tuned to the ever-awesome Starburst Magazine for my roundtable with Amandla Stenberg, Charlie Barnett, Manny Jacinto and Dafne Keen, who chats here with Entertainment Weekly about her role as Padawan Jecki Lon and the challenges of bringing this new character to life.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So what can you tell us about Jecki Lon?
DAFNE KEEN: Well, I’m very excited that we know her name now, because it was secret for so long. And I’m very happy that I get to say that she’s an alien and that she’s a Padawan and that she’s a Jedi. She’s a mixed species — part Theelin, part human. She’s very cool and I have some very cool fights I do with the lightsaber. I really love her. She’s a great character and was really fun to play. I’m very excited that the trailer came out. I was buzzing for days.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Jecki is Sol’s Padawan, so what kind of Padawan is she and what is her relationship like with her master?
DAFNE KEEN: I’d say she is a very dedicated Padawan. She’s definitely in awe of him in a very kind of sweet way. She thinks the absolute world of him in a way that I think they have a very sweet relationship, but she’s much more aware of the authority difference than, for example, Obi-Wan and Anakin. She’s very much like, “No, he’s the master and I’m the Padawan and he’s perfect. And everything he says, I have to follow to the T.”
We plan on being all over The Acolyte with Making Tracks Reaction Chat episodes on Fantha Tracks Radio, group reviews and Sanders episode guides here on the site and discussions on Good Morning Tatooine over at Fantha Tracks TV, so subscribe wherever you need to and stay tuned.
