- This week, we stan Bo-Katan and more.
[exciting music]
Earlier this week, the official story trailer
for "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" debuted,
reuniting us with Cal Kestis and the rest of the Stinger Mantis crew.
Set five years after the events of "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order,"
Cal and his friends–Merrin, Cere, and Greez, as well as BD-1, of course–
are continuing their quest to find a safe haven beyond the Empire's reach,
and–I'm sorry, is that a High Republic robe?
"Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" arrives this April.
And if you just can't wait for more Stinger Mantis content,
today, Cere enters the holotables in "Galaxy of Heroes."
In a special marquee event, add the former Jedi
and unaligned Force user from "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order"
to your squad for careful and calculated missions.
Cere protects her allies with an assortment of different buffs
and she works well with others,
especially when those others are Cal Kestis.
Download "Galaxy of Heroes" now in the Apple and Google Play app stores.
Episode 14, "Tipping Point," of "The Bad Batch" has arrived.
Behind? Meet us ahead at the timestamp below.
Echo is back, leading a mission to rescue his clone brothers
being imprisoned by the Empire.
Checking back in with poor Crosshair,
the elite clone is under excruciating questioning
about the location of Clone Force 99.
- They're in possession of something I need.
- Omega? - Very good.
- Stay strong, Crosshair.
Meanwhile, the rest of the members of the Bad Batch
are still on Pabu living their best lives.
- Incoming vessel on approach. - [gasps] It's him!
- And just like that, the crew is back together again.
- I will expect a full briefing on your plan at the Summit.
- Tarkin?
Tech does his Tech thing and gets the deets,
along with a message from Crosshair.
- What did it say?
- Plan 88. The Seeker.
We are being targeted.
- As a fine rebel admiral once said... - It's a trap!
- Or is it a genuine message of help?
- How do we find out?
- Watch next week's double episode season finale
of "The Bad Batch" to find out.
And don't forget to check out the latest episode
of "The Mandalorian" season 3 with "Chapter 20: The Foundling,"
which finds Din Djarin back with his hidden Mandalorian covert
and special guest Ahmed Best, reprising his role as Kelleran Beq.
Watch the latest installment for yourself now,
streaming only on Disney+.
Katee Sackhoff has been a part of the "Star Wars" family
for over a decade as the voice of Bo-Katan Kryze
in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and "Star Wars Rebels."
With Bo-Katan stepping up as costar of "The Mandalorian,"
we sat down with Katee to find out how the character has evolved
and where we find Lady Kryze on her own personal journey in season 3.
You've played Bo-Katan for over a decade now.
- Yeah.
- How has your approach for the role changed in that time?
- You know, it's a completely different medium,
and I don't think I realized how different it was, to be honest,
until I actually stepped onstage
and thought that I had done all of the work
and realized that I didn't actually know how Bo-Katan moved
and talked and held herself and all of these things
that, all of a sudden, I felt completely unprepared,
even though I knew so much about her.
She never looked like me. She looked like animated Bo-Katan.
And so then all of a sudden, to see my own face as hers
was harder than I thought it would be, actually.
And then realizing, like, "Oh, no." [both laugh]
Like, I'm just looking like Katee right now.
Like, Bo-Katan can't do this.
Like, she can't move her face this much. She can't talk with her hands.
Like, could you imagine if Bo just showed up and she was like, "Din!"
[both laugh]
- I would like to see that take, honestly, but...
- I think that's how the rehearsals go. - Yeah.
How has your approach changed, then, going from season 2,
when you were first in live-action with her, to season 3?
- So I think in season 2, we were really just, like, paying homage
to animated Bo.
So I think for this season, I wanted to lean in
and, like, own pieces of her more.
That's what I wanted her to look like.
I wanted her to look slightly different,
not so much as, like, just cut out of animation,
but that she looks like she belongs in this world.
- What can you tell us about where she is on her journey this season?
- For people who know her backstory and watched "Clone Wars" and "Rebels,"
like, this is a woman who has had a lot of challenges in her life,
a lot of heartache and disappointments,
and she's always done what she thought was right
for the Mandalorian people.
She's never done anything
that she didn't think was the right thing for her people,
and she's made a lot of mistakes in the process,
and I think that she wears all of that
and there's so much guilt and so much turmoil,
and I think that plays itself out a little bit this season.
You know, at the end of the season,
for her to not take the Darksaber is such a huge moment
when we've seen her take it before.
Something's different, you know?
There's a reason why she didn't, and I think it plays itself
and lends itself to who she has become and where she's going.
- I also love the way she sits on the throne.
I don't know if that was your decision or if it–
- Like a baller? - Yeah.
[laughs] - Yeah, like, she, like owns the throne.
I think that that was a really big thing for, like, Jon and I.
Like, he kept having me sit and then walk back
and sit and walk back and change and do this,
and he's like–he wanted it to seem...
slightly disrespectful, I think, was what we ended up with.
But it is different.
It's not the way that you would normally see royalty sit on a throne,
and that may be a sort of metaphor for part of her issues and problems.
[laughs] - Bo does her own thing.
- She does. - Yes. Yeah.
Oh, she certainly does.
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