Ahsoka’s Mandalorian Season 2 Role Was Designed As A One-Off
According to Rosario Dawson, her role as Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian season 2 was designed as a one-off outing. The Mandalorian featured Ahsoka’s first live-action appearance, but that was far from the character’s first introduction to the Star Wars franchise as she played a huge role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) as Anakin Skywalker’s Jedi padawan. Ahsoka later appeared in Star Wars: Rebels as an agent for the budding Rebel Alliance before a duel with Darth Vader left her stranded on the planet Malachor.
While the Rebels epilogue confirmed that Ahsoka survived past the events of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi, her role in The Mandalorian confirmed what she was up to in the galaxy following the fall of the Empire. On his quest to reunite little Grogu with the Jedi, The Mandalorian lead Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) ventured to the planet Corvus after Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff), one of Ahsoka’s allies from her Clone Wars days, informed him that Ahsoka was there. Although Din and Ahsoka briefly clashed, the two eventually teamed up to defend a small town. Following the skirmish, Ahsoka refused to train Grogu as a Jedi, but set Din on the path to look for other Jedi who might be willing to do so.
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Vanity Fair recently caught up with Dawson, whose role as Ahsoka has expanded far beyond a single appearance in The Mandalorian as she prepares to helm her own series, Ahsoka. However, that was not always the plan as her role in episode 5 of Mandalorian season 2 was a test to see audience reactions to Ahsoka's jump to live-action. See Dawson’s statement below.
“Even as they were first talking about this
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