The Identity Of Forest Whitaker's ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Character Has Been Revealed
We were promised the big reveal today, and here it is. EW has debuted a new still of Forest Whitaker as a character from Star Wars canon, and none of you guessed his name! More past the jump...
If that name is not familiar to you, you probably weren't a fan of The Clone Wars animated series. Gerrera was introduced in season 5 as a freedom fighter who, along with his sister Steela, employed some pretty extreme tactics to rid his home-world of the Separatist army.
We still don't know exactly how Saw will be reintroduced in Rogue One, but it has been confirmed that he's an ally of the Rebels... even if they don't quite trust him or approve of his methods. “Consider him kind of a battered veteran who leads a band of Rebel extremists,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy tells EW. “He’s on the fringe of the Rebel Alliance. Even [they] are a little concerned about him.”