AHSOKA Star Rosario Dawson Shares Big Change STAR WARS Series Made To Anakin Skywalker's Return

AHSOKA Star Rosario Dawson Shares Big Change STAR WARS Series Made To Anakin Skywalker's Return

Ahshoka featured the return of Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano actress Rosario Dawson has now revealed a big change the Disney+ series made to the actor's role in this story...

By JoshWilding - Jan 06, 2024 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: SFFGazette.com

Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen first appeared on screen together while working on 2003's Shattered Glass but originally met as teenagers in a summer acting class. As you'll know their big reunion came in last year's Ahsoka when they reprised their respective Star Wars roles as Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker. 

The relationship between the two characters was first explored in The Clone Wars animated series (where Ashkey Eckstein and Matt Lanter played them). This first live-action meeting meant a lot to fans and, as it happens, had a major impact on the actors themselves. 

"We just had so much fun," Dawson tells Entertainment Weekly (via SFFGazette.com). "I tell you the entire crew made an excuse to be on set those days. It just brought tears to all of our eyes. It was wonderful. I love Hayden. He's such a wonderful man."

"You know, I got to meet him and get to know him a little bit when we were younger, and I saw a lot of that journey he went through when he became a part of the series."

As for what he brought to the series as Anakin for that meeting in the World Between Worlds, Dawson shared her take by saying, "Sith Anakin, we never got to see that. We only got to see him become Darth [Vader]. We got the seeds of that a little bit in the films, but we didn't get to sit with him for very long in that. So it was nice to see him be in the Clone Wars clothing, all of that stuff."

Following that memorable sequence, we got to see Christensen play a hologram of Anakin recorded at the height of the Clone Wars and as a Force Ghost in Ahsoka's closing moments. 

Explaining the thinking behind Anakin's surprise appearance during that training sequence, Dawson revealed the original plan was for the Jedi to appear aboard her ship as a Force Ghost. "We ended up tweaking that and playing with it a little bit," she explains.

"That moment with him coming out of the World Between Worlds was so significant, so it didn't make sense to necessarily have like another dialogue scene with him - because how could you really build on that in that way? So we transformed that."

 "We sort of shifted it a little bit so she was watching him as a hologram, rather than Force ghost conversation," Dawson adds. "It also makes that moment in the World Between Worlds more ephemeral, like, What was that? Is she just dreaming? Is she really talking to herself? It's nice to keep that as a question mark."

We'd say Dave Filoni made the right decision there, particularly as that big cliffhanger on Peridea now leaves the door open to Anakin guiding his former Padawan back to her own Galaxy as a full-fledged Force Ghost. 

Having Anakin appear in the form right away would have largely robbed the ending of its impact and made him too readily available to the title character in the second half of the season.

All episodes of Ahsoka are now streaming on Disney+. 

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BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 1/6/2024, 12:08 PM
I don't think it is a "question mark". His appearance at the very end of the last episode confirmed it actually was Anakin, not just her dream of him.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 1/6/2024, 12:13 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - I thought the Sith Anakin was a force hallucination but the one at the end was the real deal.

Either way, I hope next time we actually get a proper interaction between the two. What’s the point of Anakin coming back as a force ghost if he doesn’t actually provide council to Ashoka/Luke.
Humby
Humby - 1/6/2024, 1:59 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - It doesn't matter if it was real or a dream. Force ghosts and things like the world between worlds are primarily devices for character development of the protagonist, and in a world like Star Wars, where they can both be explained as products of the force, why does it matter if it was real or not? It was clearly meant to be Anakin from beyond, so whether she was physically in the world between worlds or simply accessing it in some sort of heightened dream state, it's all just a way to provide Ahsoka with some sense of closure. Just my 2 cents.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 1/6/2024, 10:00 PM
@Nightwing1015 - just be happy with what you got!
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 1/6/2024, 11:37 PM
@TheNewYorker - It was pretty cool - could've been more emotionally impactful though to have a real conversation. There's plenty more Star Wars to come, I'm sure they'll get there.
Origame
Origame - 1/6/2024, 12:17 PM
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BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 1/6/2024, 12:18 PM
Hey Disney…just because you Ana-Can..doesn’t always necessarily mean you Ana-Should…
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/6/2024, 12:28 PM
All those fans throwing shade at Hayden back during the prequels and now everyone thinks he's doing a great job. We are a bi-polar bunch.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 1/7/2024, 12:21 AM
@lazlodaytona - Changing their mind over near 2 decades makes them bi-polar? I guess most everyone is bi-polar.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/7/2024, 12:24 AM
@dagenspear - don't read too into it. was supposed to be dry humor.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 1/7/2024, 12:40 AM
@lazlodaytona - What was it about?
S8R8M
S8R8M - 1/6/2024, 12:52 PM
Don't care about the article.
I just want to say I love you, Rosario Dawson! You are a goddess!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/6/2024, 3:21 PM
Mark did it first.

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