‘The Mandalorian’ Cast Learned About Luke Skywalker’s Cameo At The Same Time As Fans
The appearance of a young Luke Skywalker in the season 2 finale ofTheMandalorianwas one of the biggest reveals from the Disney+ series. It turns out that it was also its best-kept secret. Not even the cast of theStar Warsseries knew who was going to step out of those doors until they saw it on Disney+ like everyone else.
Katee Sackhoff, who plays the live-action version of the belovedStar Wars: The Clone WarsandStar Wars Rebelscharacter Bo-Katan Kryze, was part of the ensemble of characters who appeared in theMandalorianseason 2 finale, “Chapter 16: The Rescue,” which saw Din Djarin joined by Bo-Katan, Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), bounty hunter Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), and Cara Dune (Gina Carano) to rescue Grogu from Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) after he was kidnapped by members of Gideon’s droid Dark Trooper squadron. But unbeknownst to Sackhoff, there was another major character who would steal the show from the rest of the ensemble in the final few minutes: Luke Skywalker.
It was the surprise appearance thattook the internet by storm, when a digitally de-agedMark Hamillemerged from a door to take Grogu under his wing. However, it was actor Max Lloyd-Jones who served as a body double for the Jedi Knight, and that was who Sackhoff saw on set, she said in an interview withThe Sith Council(viaInside the Magic):
“I didn’t know [it was Luke] until I saw it with you guys…They didn’t tell us. There was an actor there with dots on his face.”
But Sackhoff could put two and two together, even if she believed the cast would’ve been informed of such a major cameo. As it turned out, evensome of the crewdidn’t even know about Luke’s cameo. Sackhoff added:
“I mean, kind of. But at the same time, I thought to myself, ‘They would have let us know that.’ You know, they said… Who did they say it was? I think Robin [Gadsby] knew who they said it was, but it was a complete red herring. So we didn’t know. I knew it was a Jedi. I knew it was an X-Wing. So you start to put things together, but you don’t know.”
It’s unclear whether Bo-Katan, or Luke, will appear inThe Mandalorianseason 3 or any of the show’s recently-announced spin-offs includingAhsoka,Rangers of the New Republic, andThe Book of Boba Fett.
