Dooku Almost Had A Secret Jedi Love In AOTC (& It Mirrored Anakin's Story)

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Count Dooku nearly had a secret romance with another Jedi referred to in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, mirroring the star-crossed love of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. Count Dooku is a particularly complex Star Wars villain, leaving the Jedi Order initially with good intentions before he succumbed to the corruption of the dark side as the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus. With a potential Jedi Code-defying love affair with another Jedi, Dooku is more of a foil to his Clone Wars-era enemies, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Dooku’s lover, Jedi Master Jocasta Nu, possibly retaining feelings for Dooku well after he joined the ranks of the Lost Twenty.

The Jedi Order infamously forbade romantic attachments in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In Legends, this was partially adopted as a means to keep the Jedi from falling to the dark side and to keep them focused on defeating the Sith Lords in their various wars, while in canon, the Jedi Order adopted the restriction at the end of the High Republic era when Yoda became the Jedi Grandmaster. The Legends-era New Jedi Order finally did away with the restriction, allowing Jedi to form attachments such as romantic relationships as long as they did so in an emotionally healthy manner.

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According to Jocasta Nu’s actress, Alethea McGrath, deleted dialogue in Attack of the Clones would have established that she and Dooku once shared a romantic relationship before the latter left the Jedi Order. As both a Sith Lord and one of Attack of the Clones’ primary antagonists, Dooku’s relationship with Jocasta Nu would both mirror Anakin and Padmé’s romance and foreshadow Anakin’s fall to the dark side.