The Acolyte‘s Stars Reflect on Its Surprising Cancellation

Earlier this week, Disney announced that Star Wars bid The Acolyte won’t instrumentality for a 2nd season, overmuch to the thunderous applause of the Gamergate-esque fans who spot the show’s cancelation arsenic Lucasfilm capitulating to their harassment run against pb actor Amandla Stenberg. Now, immoderate of its different stars are reflecting connected the show’s abrupt end.

In a caller interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Master Sol histrion Lee Jung-jae expressed his disappointment with the quality portion praising creator Leslye Headland’s directing and crafting of the publication and characters.

“As you know, my quality had died already successful the archetypal season,” Lee told EW. “So I wouldn’t person appeared successful the 2nd play if determination was 1 anyway. But personally speaking, I truly loved Leslye’s writing. I thought that she was a large writer and manager who was precise talented successful the storytelling, arsenic good arsenic creating characters and creating meaningful structures wrong the story. So I was really personally truly looking guardant to watching a play 2 with her astatine the helm.”

Master Sol’s decease notwithstanding, Lee hopes that the pre-prequel-era amusement volition beryllium revived successful the future.

“To perceive the news, I was rather amazed personally arsenic well,” Lee continued. “Honestly, I americium hoping that possibly determination could beryllium changes successful the future. Because you ne'er cognize what’s going to happen. So connected a idiosyncratic level, I truly anticipation we could get to spot further stories of Leslye’s 2nd season.”

Lee wasn’t the lone Star Wars histrion to mourn The Acolyte‘s cancellation. Manny Jacinto (Qimir/The Stranger) shared an representation of his quality holding hands with Stenfield’s Osha connected a beach—the show’s last shot—with a bosom caption connected his Instagram page.

Set during Star Wars‘ High Republic era, 100 years anterior to the events of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte followed duplicate sisters played by Stenberg who were tragically separated arsenic children—then ended up pursuing antithetic paths that led them backmost together, arsenic representatives of some the airy and acheronian sides of the Force fought to marque usage of their talents.

Aside from Stenberg, Jacinto, and Lee, the formed besides featured Charlie Barnett, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Margarita Levieva, Harry Trevaldwyn, David Harewood, and Joonas Suotamo—with a fewer astonishment Star Wars quality cameos too, arsenic Disney+ shows ever emotion to do. You tin watercourse The Acolyte‘s first, and presumably only, play present connected Disney+.

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