In the school of safe bets, the odds of baby Yoda – aka the child – being a blockbuster, over like grover, meme machine of a hit were pretty good, and series star Pedro Pascal knew that as soon as he laid eyes on the little green zeitgeist grabber.
“I can’t bring myself to lie and be like ‘we had no idea of the sensation that he would be’.”
“We never talked about it being a sure thing, but I unconsciously kept to myself that the very first time I saw the image in the illustration during that first meeting, I was like ‘oh my God, people are going to lose their mind over that’.”
Pascal was also in awe of Legacy, the effects company that brought the animatronic youngling to life.
“There’s all the history they bring to it from the other films and from their experiences on other films. You’re among the best and so you just really have to make yourself a passenger to that. To see them care for the doll and also find different ways for it to express itself and become an incredible scene partner is incredibly fascinating. It’s a pretty adorable thing.”
The Mandalorian is playing now on Disney Plus, with season 1 available in the States and chapter 7 just arrived in the UK and Europe, an episode we shall be discussing on this Thursday’s 35th episode of Making Tracks (episode 34 arrives Tuesday here on the site).