Greetings and salutations my long-lost Rebels friends, it is I Andi Gutierrez
back at it again for the final season of Rebels to give all of you at
home a peek behind the curtain here at Lucasfilm Headquarters are you ready to
talk secrets? I know I am the fourth and final season of Rebels Recon starts
right now
After receiving a tip from rebel spies at the Capitol, the crew embarks on a
mission to Mandalore to rescue Sabine's father from an Imperial prison.
Sabine, you are my daughter. But the Empire reveals a weapon built by Sabine during her
Imperial past that forces the crew and their new allies to take action and
destroy it at all costs. For Mandalore. For Mandalore.
With the support of Clan Kryze Sabine helps the Mandalorians escape the clutches of the Empire naming
Bo Katan the new leader of Mandalore. For my clan and for all of Mandalore.
In this week's episode, the Rebels return to Mandalore and found out that you can't
always go home again. I sat down at the cast and crew to talk about the return
to Mandalore, Sabine's role in creating the Duchess, the return of Bo Katan and
more. Check it out. Sabine finally accepts her legacy in
Heroes of Mandalore. How has your time reunited with her family helped her grow
into this role I think it's been a long long time since she's been sort of
immersed in her own Mandalorian culture. I think maybe it sort of reignites that
sort of fire that Mandalorian like warrior fire in her and she's this young
woman I think I certainly forget how young she is because she's so wise
beyond her years and so capable and so strong and here's when it's like really
a test for her. We meet Sabine's dad in this episode how does Alric differ from
the other Mandos that we've seen in this series? We really see that Sabine gets
her love of art from Alric that it's really his influence on her that is
definitely his side that comes out through Sabine. Dave and the story team
came up with really a cool kind of idea to see the mother who's kind of hard on
her and the father who's the one that's a little more of the nurturing kind of
aspect of it so the Duchess is a type of a superweapon unlike anything we've ever
seen in Star Wars, can you give us a little more detail on how it works?
The Duchess really is an energy weapon that hones in on the Beskar alloy and then
super heats it and literally incinerates whoever's wearing the armor. It's
one of these things that has to be presented visually enough that it looks
painful. Here we did is we had a glow come from within we did that old trick
of just putting a light on the inside of the armors making our armor look like
it's glowing and then it just kind of comes out and then you cut to the next
shot where the armor Falls and there's just ash floating around you can kind of
fill in the rest. We learned here that Sabine actually created the Duchess are
there any other details about her time at the Empire that you could give us?
I think that she was a very competitive person so she probably wasn't really
thinking as she says that she made some bad decisions but she's probably at the
top of her class so she's willing to take on a challenge that no one else
would and then succeed at it. She's a munitions expert and at the time she did
as she was told you know she was a soldier in that regard and having no
idea the scope of the weapon she was developing and of course who it would be
used on so for her to then see it actually be utilized against her own
people is, I think it's just beyond devastating. We're learning more and more
about Sabine and sort of the things that she had to do and I think it really
enriches her story a bit because you really see how she's struggling against
trying to basically right her wrongs in a way. We see more armored Mandalorians
in the final scenes of this episode than we've ever seen before how did you go
about creating the look of the armor for each of the clans? Every single
designer had to design quite a few armor variations for that episode which is
really fun because Mandalorians but we all kind of work together because we
wanted all the clans to be similar right to each other. It's a lot of how quickly
can you turn around things that look varied without having to rebuild
everything from scratch which sort of ties in with George's vision of what
Mandalore was which is less of a sort of tribal thing and more very highly
sophisticated very technological society so the fact that a lot of their armor is
quite similar doesn't sort of contradict what we've been doing in the Clone Wars.
Bo Katan was a fan favorite character in the Clone Wars. What was the process and
why did you decide to bring her back into the show we always plan to bring
Bo Katan back she's such a beloved character and it just made sense in
these episodes we worked really hard on her model
and designed to get her to look in our rebel style but still hold on to the
integrity of who Bo Katan is. We do have to question ourselves is are we doing it
just because we want it or does it actually fit the story needs, with Bo Katan,
it actually really did fit because a lot of where Clone Wars was
heading towards the end of the series we were extrapolating what Maul's takeover
of Mandalore meant so we had sketched out a history in terms of who rose
through the ranks to a leadership position during that time of crisis and
Bogut and was that character and also it just felt like a worthy character to
pick up the dark saber because we made such a big deal out of it it would be a
harder sell to give that saber to someone we've never known before.
Really? A Chopper standalone movie? Go back to work or something.
(sad Chopper beeps)
(slide whistle sound)
(angry droid noises)
Of course we replaced you, you were in that meeting for like seven months.
it's been over half a year since
I last bothered Lucasfilm Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo with your Rebels questions
but I'm going to give him one more week off just to mess of them but if you have
any questions about Heroes of Mandalore tweet them -@StarWars using the
#rebelsrecon and we'll answer what we can online. And now as a special gift
to you here's an exclusive first look at next week's two-parter In the Name of
the Rebellion. Enjoy.
Base 1 this is Phoenix Leader stand by for emergency landings.
Come on! Come on! Move it!
Check you speed! Angle forward deflectors!
Wedge, dump your fuel!
You got it, boss!
Kanan! Don't worry, she's got it.
Thanks for watching Rebels Recon. We'll be back next week with a brand new
episode. Need more Rebels info check out the episode guide for Heroes of
Mandalore right now on StarWars.com. Thanks again and may the Force be with you.
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