‘Ahsoka’ Will End Filming This Fall; Rosario Dawson Discovered Martial Arts for the Collection

Whereas selling Kevin Smith’s Clerks III, Rosario Dawson revealed the upcoming Disney Plus sequence Ahsoka will full filming within the subsequent couple of months, and it appears like we are able to count on much more struggle out of the Togruta Jedi within the upcoming sequence.

In an unique with Display Rant, Dawson was requested for an replace on Ahsoka:

“Sure, we’re nonetheless filming it proper now. We simply have a pair months left. It’s going nice. It’s actually wonderful studying martial arts in my 40s. [Laughs] It’s tremendous wonderful, and I don’t use that phrase very evenly. My grandmother used to say, ‘Superb is 2 blue horses,’ when you ever mentioned one thing was wonderful. As a result of it’d be like, ‘No, wonderful is 2 blue horses. That pizza slice in all probability isn’t wonderful.’”

Now, we had heard these bits from Dawson about studying martial arts for Ahsoka earlier this 12 months, which isn’t any shock, as actors usually have “go-to” responses to related strains of questioning, particularly for initiatives that include as a lot secrecy and safety as Star Wars. With that mentioned, Dawson actually does appear to know the accountability of not solely bringing Ahsoka to live-action, however to really convey the character’s nature to life as properly. In an interview with ABC’s On the Purple Carpet earlier this 12 months at Star Wars Celebration, the actor defined that course of:

“It’s so empowering, that the extra I’m studying, the stronger I really feel linked to Ahsoka. I’ve achieved a lot researching the present, however a lot of her is her physicality and her capabilities, and it feels wonderful that I’m bodily embodying this character in an actual method. Not simply bringing her to reside motion however actually understanding her course of…I really like her and he or she’s altering my life.”

Up thus far, we now have solely seen Ahsoka in two episodes of live-action Star Wars in The Mandalorian and The Ebook of Boba Fett. However Rosario Dawson’s journey with the character will quickly take heart stage as Ahsoka is about to embark on an journey on Disney Plus subsequent 12 months, with Dave Filoni on the helm serving as sequence showrunner.