Katee Sackhoff Talks ‘The Mandalorian’ and Performing Struggles

Battlestar Galacta alum Katee Sackhoff has been in style TV for years. After voicing cultist turned mercenary/freedom fighter Bo-Katan Kryze for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, she reprised the position within the live-action sequence The Mandalorian. She’s gotten to play Bo a number of occasions since then, however because the actor herself tells it, coming again to that position hasn’t been with out its challenges.

Within the newest episode of her podcast, Sackhoff informed her Battlestar co-worker Tahmoh Penikett how she misplaced “all of my confidence” after filming The Mandalorian. “I’ve all the time performed two steps faraway from myself, [and] it all the time felt grounded in some a part of my stomach, of who I used to be,” she defined. Her common appearing technique has been to go along with her “first intuition, play the truth of the state of affairs,” however that wasn’t the case with Bo-Katan. Enjoying the character in live-action made her understand how a lot Bo is “nowhere close to who I’m as a human being. As a lot as I stood her, I by no means recognized along with her, and I didn’t know find out how to discover her.”

Sackhoff went on to say Bo-Katan “broke” her, sufficient to maintain her from additional appearing previously three years. She credit an appearing coach and a brand new supervisor with serving to her flip issues round; the previous reaffirmed her expertise and stated she simply “must get you again in your stomach. You simply want to search out your confidence once more.” As of this yr, Sackhoff’s completed voice work for Warner Bros.’ animated Watchmen duology and confirmed up on this yr’s Struggle or Flight, and he or she’s additionally in Prime Video’s upcoming Carrie sequence.

Star Wars-sensible, it’s unclear whether or not she’ll seem in The Mandalorian & Grogu or the second season of Ahsoka, each of which Bo-Katan is a few connections to. The present is presently in manufacturing, whereas the movie is due Could 22, 2026.

[via Variety]

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