She’s back as Bo-Katan for the third season of The Mandalorian, but as fans know, this isn’t her first rodeo. With the character as central to the Star Wars story as she’s ever been, Katee Sackhoff talks animated Bo, live action Bo and everything inbetween with the Official Site.
As Season 3 of the hit Disney+ series continues with new episodes each Wednesday, Bo-Katan has emerged as a formidable co-star to Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin, the eponymous Mandalorian, and the fan-favorite Grogu. In the season premiere, we found the one-time heir to the throne of Mandalore now sitting idly by on her throne on Kalevala. Well, maybe not entirely idle. “Like a baller?” Sackhoff offers helpfully. The unique posture was the result of Sackhoff and show creator Jon Favreau working to define the character’s current state of being. “That was a really big thing for Jon and I,” Sackhoff tells StarWars.com. “He kept having me sit, and then walk back, and sit, and walk back. He wanted it to seem…slightly disrespectful,” she adds, pausing to laugh mid-thought. “It’s not the way that you would normally see royalty sit on a throne. I think that may be a sort of metaphor for part of her issues.”
Sackhoff speaks about Bo-Katan as one might an old friend (she’s previously told StarWars.com about dreaming as her animated counterpart). Still, it’s taken some adjusting to accept her own face staring back at her in the full armor of Lady Kryze, Sackhoff says. “You know, it’s a completely different medium and I don’t think I realized how different it was, to be honest, until I actually stepped on stage. I thought that I had done all of the work and realized that I didn’t actually know how Bo-Katan moved and talked and held herself. All of a sudden, I felt completely unprepared even though I knew so much about her and her backstory.”
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Crimson Climb (Star Wars)
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- Johnston, E.K. (Author)
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- 368 Pages - 10/10/2023 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
