Earlier this week, Disney introduced that Star Wars collection The Acolyte gained’t return for a second season, a lot to the thunderous applause of the Gamergate-esque followers who see the present’s cancelation as Lucasfilm capitulating to their harassment campaign against lead actor Amandla Stenberg. Now, a few of its different stars are reflecting on the present’s sudden finish.
In a current interview with Entertainment Weekly, Grasp Sol actor Lee Jung-jae expressed his disappointment with the information whereas praising creator Leslye Headland’s directing and crafting of the script and characters.
“As you recognize, my character had died already within the first season,” Lee advised EW. “So I wouldn’t have appeared within the second season if there was one anyway. However personally talking, I actually cherished Leslye’s writing. I believed that she was a terrific author and director who was very proficient within the storytelling, in addition to creating characters and creating significant constructions inside the story. So I used to be really personally actually trying ahead to watching a season two together with her on the helm.”
Grasp Sol’s demise however, Lee hopes that the pre-prequel-era present might be revived sooner or later.
“To listen to the information, I used to be fairly stunned personally as nicely,” Lee continued. “Actually, I’m hoping that possibly there could possibly be adjustments sooner or later. Since you by no means know what’s going to occur. So on a private stage, I actually hope we may get to see additional tales of Leslye’s second season.”
Lee wasn’t the one Star Wars actor to mourn The Acolyte‘s cancellation. Manny Jacinto (Qimir/The Stranger) shared a picture of his character holding arms with Stenfield’s Osha on a seashore—the present’s remaining shot—with a coronary heart caption on his Instagram web page.
Set throughout Star Wars‘ Excessive Republic period, 100 years previous to the occasions of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte adopted twin sisters performed by Stenberg who have been tragically separated as youngsters—then ended up following totally different paths that led them again collectively, as representatives of each the sunshine and darkish sides of the Drive fought to utilize their skills.
Other than Stenberg, Jacinto, and Lee, the solid additionally featured Charlie Barnett, Dafne Eager, Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Margarita Levieva, Harry Trevaldwyn, David Harewood, and Joonas Suotamo—with just a few shock Star Wars character cameos too, as Disney+ exhibits at all times like to do. You possibly can stream The Acolyte‘s first, and presumably solely, season now on Disney+.
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