The first two episodes of season 2 of the Disney Plus series The Mandalorian correct one of the biggest mistakes in the series and, most importantly, introduce one of the biggest changes in the history of the saga. Which is saying a lot, I know.
The first two episodes of season 3 of the series The Mandalorian, the acolyte and The Mandalore Mines, they correct one of the big mistakes that this Star Wars product has made since the saga began. But what’s more, in doing so, he makes one of the biggest changes in Star Wars history, starting with the movies and continuing with the Disney Plus series. It is a simple change that solves a chronic flaw of the saga: recognizing the actors behind the masked characters that until now were relegated to the fine print of the credits. This may sound silly to you, but with Star Wars’ long history of failing every actor who has ever played Darth Vader, the fact that in the first two episodes of Season 3 of The Mandalorian The doubles that put the body of Din Djanrin, the Mandalorian, is recognized in the credits at the same level as the rest of the actors, it is a clear advance in terms of representation in Star Wars. Brendan Wayne, grandson of John Wayne, whom Jon Favreau met on the set of Cowboys & Aliens, who has been impersonating the Star Wars character since Season 1 Episode 1, and Lateef Crowder, who first came on board as a stunt coordinator, appear right after Amy Sedaris. So now there’s Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Amy Sedaris, Brendan Wayne and Lafeef Crowder. It seems like something unimportant, but it is a great advance in the recognition of the work of the actors. If you look at how Star Wars has tiptoed with the actors who have given life to Darth Vader in the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series, it becomes an important change, a vindication of a job well done. Or did you know that Dmitrious Bistrevsky plays Darth Vader alongside Dorian Gregory and Olga Sokolova? Do you know who Tom O’Connell? I don’t know about you, but the work that all of them do seems important to me. And it seems to me that the work of actors like David Prowse is dignified.
Recognizing the work of these actors in this way is important. Brendan Wayne’s story seems to me, honestly, more inspiring than that of Pedro Pascal, already within the Hollywood circuit, who in the series, if you think about it, ends up becoming more of a dubbing actor. “jon [Favreau] he had given me a couple of people to emulate, who were Schwarzenegger in Terminator and Yul Brynner in Westworld; each of them were robots underneath, so there’s a stiffness that he wanted Mando because he hadn’t found his soul. People always think that I copied my grandfather’s walk. Absolutely not. In fact, I don’t normally walk that slow, and he [el personaje de Din Djarin en The Mandalorian], neither. On camera, you have to slow everything down; his famous quote, ‘Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much’ is essentially what Mando is,” Wayne explained in a terrific interview on Tatooine Timesin one of the few that he has conceded since the series began.
How do the credits honor the actors? Brendan Wayne prepared to audition for the role by purchasing a Boba Fett helmet from Amazon. “My son was going to college for the first time [el dÃa que tenÃa que hacer la audición tenÃa que llevar a su hijo a la Universidad, siguiendo la tradición estadounidense]And I didn’t want to miss that moment. I love acting, but love, in its real sense, I will never find beyond my children. They managed to reschedule it, so the day before I was due to leave, I went to Manhattan Beach for the screen test. To prepare beforehand, I put on a Boba Fett helmet I bought on Amazon and my motorcycle jacket that has padding all over it… I wanted to get used to riding a helmet with T-vision. I figured out how I could walk and almost split my vision so I could see around. The funny thing was that the tint level wasn’t too bad on the helmet they did in Legacy [Effects]”, says the actor in that same interview.
Do you remember episode 13, The Jedi in which Mando and Lang, played by Brendan Wayne (not Pedro Pascal) and Michael Biehn, face each other? Wayne had joined the set after a quick convalescence after a complicated operation (his appendix had burst). “For me, it wasn’t just a really cool acting moment where I was able to do something I dreamed of, which was to grieve, but it was also a moment for me personally where I was getting over the pain that I was feeling.” Wayne account. “The team didn’t know that I was literally changing my bandage every hour because I still had an open wound on my abdomen. That was physically difficult, but I needed to make sure my fear of failure didn’t overwhelm Mando’s confidence at the time.” If this doesn’t deserve to appear in the cast of actors, I don’t know what does.
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