![]() I don’t give away too many secrets about how it works, but there are these incredible puppets, and one can be done remotely that is more conducive to wider shots. Pascal: Yeah, there’s this incredible puppet with fuzzy hair on the ears, and it moves remotely. McGregor: And was Grogu on set? Was it a puppet? Pascal: It’s like all the old and all the new, yeah.Įwan McGregor as Halston on the Netflix series Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix But I just love that they and you took it into this different direction, into a slightly different tone, but in the same world, you know? We’ve got the original movies, the linear nature of those. McGregor: The beautiful thing is that it’s a galaxy far, far away. They know the impact that it had on all of us, and they’re finding a way to - or new ways, really - to speak to that, and visually create the things that we see when we close our eyes and think about it. When I met with them, and stepped into a writers’ room that was wall-to-wall story illustrations of the first season, it was really surreal to see such familiar imagery, and kind of realize that those were pulled right out of your imagination. And so, it kind of dominated my childhood experience, “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” and “E.T.,” and all that Spielberg and George Lucas stuff. My father, who’s a doctor but loves going to the movies, would be taking us all the time. Pascal: I was born in ’75, and my parents immigrated to the U.S. ![]() McGregor: What was your relationship with “Star Wars” before “Mandalorian”? ![]() ![]() It was so clear to me that they knew what they were doing, starting with their heart being in the right place - and doing it with a lot of love. Pascal: The first thing that I noticed when I started meeting with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni was that they were finding a way to totally realize their love of “Star Wars,” all of our love for “Star Wars.” And so, creatively to step into something, it just felt so safe. McGregor: It pulled me back into the “Star Wars” world, the “Mandalorian” series, in a way I didn’t expect. Pascal: Yeah, we’re going to be doing a Season 3. McGregor: I did the first three films in the late ’90s and into the 2000s, and by the time you did Episode 2 and 3, literally 90% of the scenes were just on green sets with green floors and green walls, or a blue set with blue sides and blue walls.Īre you doing a third season of “The Mandalorian”? It’s like being on an amusement park ride. Pedro Pascal: It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? You would think that you would have to really invent all of it in your mind, but more than any set I’ve ever been on, it’s there and meticulously created in the production design. I’m having such an amazing time down there with that incredible technology, and not being in front of too much green screen and blue screen. “You didn’t do so badly yourself.”Įwan McGregor: I just came directly from our set on the “Kenobi” series, and I’m working with so many of your crew from “The Mandalorian.” In fact, Deborah Chow is directing all of our series, and I know she directed episodes of your first season. ![]() Pascal filled in the details about “Exposed,” an ABC pilot the network passed over that had been written by screenwriter Charles Randolph (who went on to win an Oscar for “The Big Short”) and directed by a pre-“Wonder Woman” Patty Jenkins: “These hacks that went off to do nothing with their careers after the pilot wasn’t picked up,” as Pascal put it. During their conversation, McGregor pointed out that several years ago, Pascal co-starred in a show with his partner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. ![]()
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