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Dafne Eager Shares New Particulars On Jedi Character

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“Star Wars” is ready to make a grand return this June with the highly-anticipated Disney+ collection “Star Wars: The Acolyte.” A latest characteristic from Leisure Weekly has make clear the character performed by actress Dafne Eager (“Logan”), a younger Jedi, the Padawan of Lee Jung-jae’s Jedi Grasp Sol. The collection revolves across the enigmatic homicide thriller of a number of Jedi, a case that Sol is set to resolve. These weird deaths happen throughout the twilight of The Excessive Republic period, a interval set 100 years earlier than the occasions of the prequels similar to “The Phantom Menace.”

EW has revealed new stills (see under) of Eager’s half-human, half-alien character, and the younger actress revealed her identify, Jecki Lon. “And I’m very comfortable that I get to say that she’s an alien and that she’s a Padawan and that she’s a Jedi. She’s a combined species — half Theelin, half human,” she mentioned. “She’s very cool, and I’ve some very cool fights I do with the lightsaber.”

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Eager additionally reveals that the connection between Jecki Lon and Sol differs tremendously from what we noticed with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. “I’d say she is a really devoted Padawan. [Jecki is] undoubtedly in awe of him in a really form of candy approach,” she defined. “She thinks absolutely the world of him in a approach that I believe they’ve a really candy relationship, however she’s far more conscious of the authority distinction than, for instance, Obi-Wan and Anakin. She’s very very like, ‘No, he’s the grasp, and I’m the Padawan, and he’s good. And every thing he says, I’ve to comply with to the T.’”

Showrunner Leslye Headland (“Russian Doll”) beforehand informed EW that she zeroed in on getting Eager concerned with the “Star Wars” collection due to her fierce efficiency within the Wolverine swan music “Logan,” enjoying the character’s feminine clone/surrogate daughter. Headland mentioned, “I simply needed to see X-23 with a lightsaber of their hand. That has to occur.”

Whereas the collection returns “Star Wars” to its Jedi roots, there may be an optimism amongst followers that the homicide/thriller aspect of the present will separate itself from the Skywalker Saga. Plus, it’s protecting a brand new period of the “Star Wars” timeline that has solely been explored within the franchise’s publishing aspect by way of comics and novels. Headland has already recommended restricted callbacks, so “The Acolyte” seems like it’ll attempt to stand out by itself.

You possibly can try the brand new pictures under, and we’ll have the ability to begin viewing “The Acolyte” on June 4 with the present’s two-episode premiere.

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ New Picture: Dafne Eager Performs Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon In Disney+ Collection Coming This June