Now almost a decade on from the debut of the show, and at the time only a couple of years into the then new Disney era of Star Wars and Lucasfilm, Star Wars Rebels was the first project to arrive. In the time before Disney Plus the show landed on Disney XD, and in those very different days Freddie Prinze Jr was quick to make a stand against what he considered to be the low wages paid to the voice actors portraying the roles in the show.
“In the world of animation, these animation actors, the voice actors, as people call them – again, they’re just actors, they’re just not doing live-action stuff – the paychecks are whack. When I did Star Wars Rebels, they weren’t paying any of us a dime. When I said, ‘I’m gonna walk unless you give not only me but the rest of the cast a raise’ – and I made sure we all got paid the same – that was the biggest, like, I can’t say that’s the biggest check any of them ever got on a show, but it was the biggest check that Disney ever paid voice actors per episode.”
Freddie would return to the role in later years, in The Rise of Skywalker and the opening episode of The Bad Batch, while many of the characters of Rebels will return in their older live action incarnations in Ahsoka, landing on Disney Plus later next year.
