New Star Wars Show Casts Battlefront 2 Star As Ahsoka's Mom
Janina Gavankar, who plays Iden Versio in the 2017 video game Star Wars: Battlefront II, has been cast as Ahsoka Tano’s mom in the upcoming animated Star Wars anthology series, Tales of the Jedi. Dave Filoni and George Lucas created Anakin Skywalker’s Togruta Padawan (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) for the animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). Ahsoka would go on to play a major role in The Clone Wars series and Filoni’s spin-off, Rebels.
Following Rebels, Filoni began work with Jon Favreau on Disney+’s first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, which has gone to admirable lengths to connect the films and animated shows. Season 2 of the series introduced The Clone Wars and Rebels characters Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) and Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson), the latter of which was inspired by a viral fan-casting. Dawson’s older Ahsoka also appeared in The Book of Boba Fett and is set to headline her own Disney+ series in 2023. It appears the character’s animated tenure is far from over as Ahsoka’s story will be further fleshed out in Filoni’s new animated anthology.
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During Star Wars Celebration 2022, Disney/Lucasfilm announced the long-rumored Tales of the Jedi, an animated anthology series. The series of shorts will chronicle the past adventures of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano, who will receive three episodes each. It was also revealed that Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar voices the character’s mother in the series as the actress was brought on stage during the panel.
Attendees of the Star Wars Celebration were also treated to a 15-minute episode of Tales of the Jedi, “Life and Death,” which depicts Ahsoka's birth and early years with her family.
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