The Mandalorian: The cast name their favourite Star Wars films

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The Disney Plus series The Mandalorian is almost with us, the cast are about to become household names and EW take the chance to sit down with them and discuss their favourite past Star Wars films.

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian): “I don’t have a choice because I was born in ’75. I remember Star Wars, but The Empire Strikes Back made me. That was where I understood what cool was in the form of Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. I saw sister break down in remove-her-from-the-theater kind of tears when they froze him. Just the kind of Shakespearean finale of the whole thing, or Greek tragedy of it. So that definitely shaped my imagination more than any of the other ones.”

Gina Carano (Cara Dune): “Return of the Jedi. One of my favorite relationships is Princess Leia and Han Solo because they’re so at each other and come together. I’m a fighter, but I’m a sucker for love and romance.”

Giancarlo Esposito (Mof Gideon): “I really like [A New Hope]. That’s the one that got me. That’s the one that stirred me up the most … [The Mandalorian] does have that feeling, of anything could happen.”

Taika Waititi (IG-11): “Everybody probably says this but Empire Strikes Back. The stakes are so high and there’s love and there’s heartbreak and there’s loss. And at the end, the bad guy basically wins. It blew me away and changed my whole outlook on what a sci-fi or fantasy film could be. Up until that time, pretty much everything was camp and ridiculous. I did not want Han Solo to be frozen. Also, I was so young I thought he was dead. I thought they killed him and turned him into a sculpture. I didn’t understand the word ‘hibernation.’ It was so shocking to me.”

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
A fan of the saga since 1978, Mark began in fan fiction in 1982 and since then has written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine, StarTrek.com and Starburst as well as being a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host. He is the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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The Disney Plus series The Mandalorian is almost with us, the cast are about to become household names and EW take the chance to sit down with them and discuss their favourite past Star Wars films.

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian): “I don’t have a choice because I was born in ’75. I remember Star Wars, but The Empire Strikes Back made me. That was where I understood what cool was in the form of Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. I saw sister break down in remove-her-from-the-theater kind of tears when they froze him. Just the kind of Shakespearean finale of the whole thing, or Greek tragedy of it. So that definitely shaped my imagination more than any of the other ones.”

Gina Carano (Cara Dune): “Return of the Jedi. One of my favorite relationships is Princess Leia and Han Solo because they’re so at each other and come together. I’m a fighter, but I’m a sucker for love and romance.”

Giancarlo Esposito (Mof Gideon): “I really like [A New Hope]. That’s the one that got me. That’s the one that stirred me up the most … [The Mandalorian] does have that feeling, of anything could happen.”

Taika Waititi (IG-11): “Everybody probably says this but Empire Strikes Back. The stakes are so high and there’s love and there’s heartbreak and there’s loss. And at the end, the bad guy basically wins. It blew me away and changed my whole outlook on what a sci-fi or fantasy film could be. Up until that time, pretty much everything was camp and ridiculous. I did not want Han Solo to be frozen. Also, I was so young I thought he was dead. I thought they killed him and turned him into a sculpture. I didn’t understand the word ‘hibernation.’ It was so shocking to me.”

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SourceEW
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
A fan of the saga since 1978, Mark began in fan fiction in 1982 and since then has written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine, StarTrek.com and Starburst as well as being a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host. He is the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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