Star Wars: Ahsoka didn’t simply choose up on threads from Star Wars Rebels, it additionally developed some new plotlines for its returning solid. Chief amongst them, Rebels character Sabine Wren ended up being Ahsoka’s apprentice and found she had Drive powers, making her a Jedi Mandalorian—and the primary of her form, within the eyes of basic audiences.
Some discovered that Sabine took to the Drive a bit too simply, however to actor Natasha Liu Bordizzo, the character struggled with it the correct quantity. In a latest Entertainment Weekly interview, she pointed to how a lot the present has Sabine making an attempt “repeatedly” together with her new powers earlier than actually getting the hold of them. Whereas her present suite of Drive strikes aren’t as flashy as extra skilled customers, these rising pains have been there, and the actor loved how “messy” mentioned progress finally was. “It’s superior [to me] that it was a journey,” mentioned Bordizzo. “When the stakes are so excessive, she’s in a position to harness it within the time she wanted to most.”
As a part of her Drive struggles, Ahsoka briefly sees Sabine work with Morgan Elsbeth’s group to leap to a brand new galaxy. It’s all for the sake of lastly deliver her good friend Ezra Bridger again residence, and additional sophisticated by her conflicting emotions on beforehand failing to be Ahsoka’s apprentice. Bordizzo is aware of her character was “polarizing” to some in that first season. However in her eyes, that turmoil was wanted to point out how a lot Sabine’s modified since Rebels’ finish in 2018. “It was enjoyable to have the ability to come from such a darkish place,” she acknowledged. “I feel the present wouldn’t have had as a lot of a journey with out beginning with [Sabine and Ahsoka’s] dynamic being so tense and needing one another, however probably not wanting to wish one another.”
Now that we all know a second season of Ahsoka is within the works, we’ll doubtless see Sabine come extra into her Drive powers, similar as we did with Ahsoka throughout Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Given how versatile Sabine was throughout Rebels, giving her a lightsaber and telekinesis is sensible and underlines how anybody could be a Drive person. It additionally has the additional benefit of additional making Sabine probably the most busted, extremely versatile characters the franchise at the moment has in its secure.
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