We know British singing superstar Cynthia Erivo best for her stellar performances as Elphaba in Wicked and Wicked For Good, and the past few weeks have seen plenty of fandom scuttlebutt wonder whether she could be cast as a live action Asajj Ventress, but you might not have picked up on the fact that Cynthia is already a card-carrying member of the GFFA. Season two of Star Wars Visions gave us the episode Aau’s Song, and in there the enigmatic wandering Jedi Kratu, played by Erivo.
working on “Visions” shouldn’t prevent actors from also appearing in canonical “Star Wars” projects. It’s a good thing, too, because this franchise desperately needs to rehire Cynthia Erivo, who lent her vocal gravitas to the Jedi Kratu in the “Visions” season 2 episode “Aau’s Song.”
Hailing from Triggerfish (an animation studio that originated in South Africa and has worked on projects like the Netflix show “Supa Team 4” and the well-received Disney+ anthology series “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire”), the episode follows Aau (Mpilo Jantjie), a native of the planet Korba, as she tries to help her father Abat (Tumisho Masha) and Cynthia Erivo’s visiting Jedi, Kratu, heal their world’s Kyber crystals after years of them being “bled” for Sith lightsabers. (Yes, this is, canonically, why dark side lightsabers are red.)