Of the many surprises ourlooks at Ahsokagave us at Star Wars Celebration last month — from startling Clone Wars returns , to our first right look atGrand Admiral Thrawn — one did n’t actually make it into footage released outdoors of the pattern . But that was enough for one actress on the show to sigh in relief she could mouth about it .
That actress was Natasha Liu Bordizzo , who appears in Ahsoka as thelive - natural action iterationof Rebels mainstay Sabine Wren , and the surprisal ? That guests at the con find out an extended variant of the Ahsoka laggard where Sabine go away into battle against a secret agent of the Dark Side wielding the green - bladed lightsaber of herlong - absent friend Ezra .
“ I ’m just really happy that ’s out there , ” Bordizzo secernate Empire in its latest issuance ( viaComicbook ) . “ It ’s been really hard talking about my fight - training without talking about the fact that it ’s ‘ cavalry sword - training , ’ which is literally all I ’ve been doing for so long . The Mandalorian [ physicality ] is very Western , and then the saber dash is very samurai - influence . Trying to body forth those two things — sometimes one in good order after the other — in the choreography was super interesting , because they ’re such unlike mode of being . I really had fun with the journey of trying to master both . ”
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Of of course Sabine is n’t unfamiliar with the weapon of the Jedi — after all , she pick up Kanan and Ezra handle them during her meter with the Ghost crew , and as thebrief inheritor of the legendary Darksaber , Sabine was trained by the duet to effectively wield a lightsaber in combat . So it makes horse sense in a do-or-die combat against another lightsaber - wielder , she ’s positive enough to use one . But even then , Bordizzo teased that Sabine ’s electric arc in Ahsoka will be bind more to what the lightsaber means to her , rather than her mental ability to apply it .
“ It ’s just part of her journey , ” the actress reason out . “ Not just the saber itself , but what comes with that , and what that means , and what mindset it takes to exert that artillery . ”
Ahsoka is set to begin streaming on Disney+ this August .
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