Rosario Dawson to appear in season two of hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian as Star Wars fan favorite Ahsoka Tano
Rosario Dawson has reportedly landed a role one of the most successful streaming shows around.
The Rent actress has clinched the role of Jedi padawan Ahsoka Tano in the upcoming second season of Disney+ series The Mandalorian, reports Deadline.
Dawson, 40, will be playing the first live-action version of Ahsoka, who has already appeared in the CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels.
She’s got it: Rosario Dawson has reportedly clinched the role of Jedi padawan Ahsoka Tano in the upcoming second season of Disney+ series The Mandalorian
Both of those series are considered ‘canon’ by Star Wars aficionados, as they come from original Star Wars creator George Lucas as well as Dave Filoni, who among his many credits include writing for, directing and producing on The Mandalorian.
Ahsoka is one of the main protagonists of The Clone Wars, introduced as Anakin Skywalker’s premiere Jedi padawan apprentice.
She is of the Togruta race of aliens, characterized by her orange skin and unique striped headpiece or ‘headtails’.
Fan-favorite: Ahsoka was introduced in the CGI series Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Anakin Skywalker’s premiere Jedi padawan apprentice
‘Yes please!’: Dawson’s casting is a Star Wars fan’s dream come true, as the actress herself stated her desire to play Ahsoka way back in 2017 when responding to a user on Twitter
For those keeping track, Anakin is the Jedi master who eventually becomes Darth Vader – played by actor Hayden Christensen in Lucas’s misbegotten Star Wars prequels in the early aughts.
Dawson’s casting is a Star Wars fan’s dream come true, quite literally, as the 25th Hour actress herself stated her desire to play Ahsoka way back in 2017 when responding to a user on Twitter.
That tweet spurred fans everywhere to campaign for Rosario to appear in a Star Wars movie as the character, which she even acknowledged on Good Morning America months later, saying that ‘it would be amazing!’ and asking, ‘Internet, help me out!’
Expanding world: It remains to be seen exactly how Dawson’s character will figure into the world populated by Mandalorians, a creed of assassins made famous by Bobba Fett in the original films
The Mandalorian is a sci-fi western, set in the world of Star Wars that quickly became a cultural phenomenon at the end of last year, largely thanks to the adorable Baby Yoda character (known on the show as ‘The Child’).
It remains to be seen exactly how Dawson’s character Ahsoka Tano will figure into the world populated by Mandalorians, a creed of assassins made famous by Bobba Fett in the original films.
In February, Variety reported that The Madalorian is slated to return to the Disney+ streaming platform with new episodes in October of this year – it remains to be seen whether the show will be able to meet that date in light of the current industry-wide halt in production due to coronavirus.