Eman Esfandi Had No Idea What Sabine Was Filling Ezra In On While FilmingAhsoka

Star Wars can oftenfeel culturally ubiquitous , but sometimes even the people work in its space detect themselves inside a world they have little experience with ( as they should : Star Wars thrives onthe perspectives of many , and that includes people unfamiliar with it ! ) . But forEman Esfandi , going back and acquiring that knowledge made his Star Wars role even more fun in hindsight .

Esfandi recently discussed his initial lack of Star Wars knowhow in a recent consultation withThe Hollywood newsman . Even though the actor was dead set on bringing Ezra to life — revealing he had separate his agentive role he felt destined to portray the live - action version of the Rebels character calendar month before Lucasfilm even began auditioning the role — the doer did n’t really see up with the globe of Star Wars until after he ’d finish film . “ I was n’t a Star war someone before the show . I just did n’t grow up on it , ” Esfandi told THR . “ But after we film the show , I inhaled all of it for six months . ” That realization made Esfandi meditate on one mo in hisAhsokaperformance in particular : the view where Sabine Wren reunify with her protagonist after decades ( and a whole galaxy ) asunder , catch him up witheverything that ’s happenedsince the climax of Star Wars Rebels witness Ezra exile himself and Thrawn aside to parts unnamed .

“ When Sabine was replete Ezra in , I also did n’t have intercourse much about it . Once I got to know everything , it just made that vista twice as funny , ” Esfandi said . “ I was like , ‘ Oh my God , that was how they fill up Ezra in ? That ’s hilarious . ’ ”

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Of naturally , an actordoesn’t have to bedeeply intimate with all the lore to play their part well — Esfandi did a somewhat star Book of Job convey an old Ezra to lifespan in Ahsoka , regardless of his familiarity with the source cloth in that moment . If anything , that lack of familiarity exploit for the character : after all , Ezra was born the day the Republic became the Galactic Empire , and he vanished off of the face of the coltsfoot a class before the events of A New Hope . Now that we know he was literally ina whole other galaxy , he missed out on the bulkof what Star Wars is , with no way to take in up on it . But there ’s also something deeply funny , and incredibly Ezra , about the idea of him “ uh huh , yeah , uh huh”-ing his mode through a quick retread of event by Sabine , only to memorize the full extent of what materialise during the events of , well , Star Wars after the fact , and finding it absolutely harebrained .

Because it kind of is ! Especially to someone like Ezra and his own lax connection to the people who would eventually become the movers and shakers of galaxy - changing upshot . The theme of Ezra watch archival holo - docs about the astronomical civil war after his return home and learning that it ended withAhsoka ’s older mastergetting redeemed by his son — and hada son in the first place — who became the look of the Rebel Alliance in his absence alongside that senator ’s daughterhe match once , or that Palpatine , as far as he have it off , never managed to do some drab side bullshit with the World Between Worlds , is very peculiar to me .

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