Between The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor and more, we’re currently neck deep in the Star Wars Television Universe, or so Disney would like it to be known. One of the big new shows on the horizon is Ahsoka, all about former Jedi padawan Ahsoka Tano.
Ahsoka made her live-action debut in the second season of The Mandalorian, where she was played by Rosario Dawson. But before that, she was voiced for years by Ashley Eckstein, on the animated shows Star Wars: The Clone Wars and later Star Wars Rebels.
Ahsoka had a particularly prominent role on The Clone Wars, where we saw her train under Anakin Skywalker, the man who would become Darth Vader. At one point, the show was going to introduce a love interest for her but decided to pull back, a decision Eckstein approved of.
Ahsoka Tano was going to have a boyfriend in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but he was cut
Speaking at Emerald City Comic Con, Eckstein shared that at one time Ahsoka was originally going to get a love interest during the seventh and final season, but that things changed before air:
"I think they made everything that I recorded, because they did adjust it, but the episodes with Trace, and Rafa, and the Martez sisters, that was originally an arc with… Ahsoka had a boyfriend and his name was Nyx Okami. And so yeah, it was originally that arc, so we essentially just remade it, and they changed it to the Martez sisters, which I have to say, I was very glad they changed it to the Martez sisters, because Ahsoka didn’t have time for a boyfriend. I wasn’t super crazy about that."
Ahsoka has been a part of the Star Wars universe for many years now but we’ve never known her to have a love interest, outside of a brief subplot about a guy named in Lux Bonteri in season 3 of The Clone Wars. Generally speaking, TV characters get relationship arcs sooner or later, but in a chaste franchise like Star Wars, I’m not surprised they’ve held off.
Perhaps that will change when Ahsoka’s solo show premieres on Disney+? We’ll find out later this year.
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