One of The Acolyte’s Stars Perfectly Explains Why It’s So Good

So, uh, that happened. And that happened. And THAT happened arsenic well. The 5th occurrence of The Acolyte brought a full caller level of enactment and chaos to the Star Wars universe, thing 1 of the show’s stars rightfully points out doesn’t hap enough successful modern franchises.

Dafne Keen, who plays Jedi apprentice Jecki Lon connected the Disney+ Star Wars show, spoke to Entertainment Weekly astir the latest episode, which requires diving into immoderate heavy-duty spoilers.

“There are truthful galore directors successful blockbuster sagas that are truthful frightened to termination disconnected their characters, and are truthful comfy with bringing characters backmost to life, and each of these small writer tricks that I deliberation are rather cheeky,” Keen said, referring to the information that not lone does her quality dice successful the episode, but truthful does Jedi Knight Yord Fandar (Charlie Barnett)—joining The Acolyte’s erstwhile assemblage count, which includes Jedi Masters Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo), Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss), and Torbin (Dean Charles Chapman).

“And I truly similar that [show creator Leslye Headland] was really sidesplitting people,” she continued. “Because if you’re not making it dangerous, past wherefore are we adjacent here? Why are we acrophobic by the story? Why bash we care? Leslye has specified a backbone arsenic a writer, to marque you autumn successful emotion with these characters and past slaughter them each similar pigs and beryllium like, ‘Yeah, this is our villain. We’re not conscionable saying he’s truthful large and scary, we’re really showing you however large and scary helium is.’”

We find nary amended illustration of a franchise failing to bash this than, well, Star Wars. Even though The Rise of Skywalker was the extremity of an full saga of films, it teased sidesplitting not conscionable 1 oregon 2 characters, but besides resurrected upwards of 10 antithetic characters. (We broke each 1 down astatine this link). That conscionable makes everything imperishable oregon melodramatic astir the movie wholly melt away.

But not connected The Acolyte. On The Acolyte, main characters person been dying since the archetypal country of the archetypal episode. It’s 1 of the biggest pluses of the amusement being acceptable truthful acold distant from immoderate different known story—basically anyone and everyone is expendable. Will that proceed arsenic the amusement moves forward? We’ll person to hold and spot successful the last 4 episodes. But Keen truly cuts to 1 of the simplest and astir evident reasons wherefore The Acoltye is moving truthful well. It goes determination to springiness america a better, much compelling, and much captivating story.

If you privation to work much astir decease connected The Acolyte, caput implicit to Entertainment Weekly. There, Keen and others speech astir the information they knew their characters were doomed and however that impacted their performances, and overmuch more.

Stream episode 5 of The Acolyte connected Disney+.

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