Pedro Pascal teases Baby Yoda’s role in The Mandalorian season 2
The second season of The Mandalorian is coming to Disney+ this October, bringing us the further adventures of Din Djarin, aka Mando, and the Child, aka Baby Yoda.
Baby Yoda took the internet by storm when the first season of the show dropped last year, so taken was the internet by his dangerously high level of cuteness. But there was also a lot of mystery to him. Just who is this little green guy, and why do so many people in the galaxy seem to be after him?
If anyone would know, it’s Game of Thrones veteran Pedro Pascal, who plays the Mandalorian himself. Unfortunately, he’s keeping the details to himself…mostly. “[T]he truth is that The Child in the series is obviously a very, central story to the whole world of the show – and it’s one that they even keep as a mystery from me,” he told TechRadar. “Which works completely, because it is a mystery to The Mandalorian. So, I am learning about The Child just as our audiences are and will be.”
Bounty hunting, as we all know, is a complicated profession. Is it possible that Din Djarin might meet his end in season 2? With the vile Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) on his tail, he needs to watch himself, at least. “Oh, God, I have no idea,” Pascal said. “I think it’s such a dangerous world that he navigates. And then of course, everyone is in danger. Especially since shows I’ve been in, like Game of Thrones, sort of set the tone for those kinds of shocking surprises. Who knows? Star Wars has its own set of rules for sure. But anything is possible.”
Speaking of possibilities, Pascal promised that The Mandalorian season 2 would show us some things we hadn’t seen before in this galaxy far, far away. “I think they’re very dedicated to not betraying what would feel or look true to the world, but there are so many special ways – none of which I can tell you – that they are experimenting with creating even more new environments in the Star Wars universe.”
Novelty is definitely welcome. That said, much has been made of the Star Wars “legacy” characters set to appear in season 2, with Rosario Dawson playing fan favorite ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano, Katee Sackhoff playing Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan, and Temuera Morrison — who played Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones — playing Boba Fett.
These characters have all featured on Star Wars: The Clone Wars or Star Wars Rebels, shows created by The Mandalorian showrunner Dave Filoni. “Oh my gosh, it’s the best thing about it,” Pascal said of working with a Star Wars loremaster like Filoni. “I can’t tell you what it’s like to be able to be a part of a show where I’m working with someone who has such incredible knowledge and love of everything Star Wars, which is in Dave Filoni. And of course he has his animated series, and all of its possibilities.”
"I can tell you that it’s sort of limitless in terms of the kinds of possibilities of things that we may have seen from The Clone Wars that might be realized within the vision of the show The Mandalorian. I wouldn’t want to get specific at all because honestly, especially if you love his work and you love the show, those are surprises that are definitely worth waiting for."
And there may be other Star Wars legacy characters set to appear that we haven’t yet heard about. For example, what about Dengar, another bounty hunter featured in The Clone Wars who, in the extended universe books, rescues Boba Fett from the Sarlacc Pit? Simon Pegg, who voiced Dengar in The Clone Wars, says he’d like to play the character in live-action.
“I’ve mentioned it a few times, but surely, if Taika [Waititi] and [Jon] Favreau decide to bring Dengar into The Mandalorian, then I have some form [of experience] in the past having played him in Star Wars: Battlefront and The Clone Wars,” Pegg told Collider. “So just saying. I heard they just employed Katee Sackhoff to play a character that wasn’t in the movies but she played it before in a different Star Wars thing, so just saying.”
Just saying, indeed. We’ll find out who all shows up when The Mandalorian season 2 premieres on Disney+ in October.
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