As the credits rolled on the end of Star Wars Rebels, it was revealed that Dave Filoni was the voice of loveable droid Chopper.
As seen in the credits after the series finale, Chopper is voiced by none other than co-creator and executive producer Dave Filoni–oftentimes the public face of the series at conventions and fan events. Speaking to a group of fans after a special screening of the series finale, Filoni explained why he decided to come clean about his other job as a voice actor. “Show’s over, so it was kind of then or never,” he jokes.
How did Filoni end up voicing one of the show’s starring roles, though? As it turns out, a temporary fix became permanent. “I wound up playing Chopper, I’ll tell this short story because we had to deliver the first short to Disney to watch and we didn’t have a final Chopper voice. And I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to just do this.’ We did it right in the editorial in Lucasfilm,” he says. “I knew what a likable jerk is like and what I wanted him to be like. Then when we screened it, [Disney boss] Bob Iger said, ‘I really like that little droid.’ And I was like, ‘Well, now I’m stuck.'”
