While reshoots were once cause for concern (and still can be in certain cases), they're par for the course in Hollywood these days. Many movies even leave time in production schedules for them, allowing filmmakers to reshape stories as they see fit...or after a poor response from test audiences!
It's a little different on TV, of course, but Bo-Katan Kryze actress Katee Sackhoff has just revealed a huge alteration that was made to The Mandalorian's season 2 finale.
Talking to Kristian Harloff (via SFFGazette.com), she confirmed that Simon Kassianides' Axe Woves was originally killed off in that episode!
"Axe, you know, we knew he was supposed to die last year," Sackhoff recalls. "That was the thing that no one could talk about. There was this moment where he sacrifices himself in that episode. We shot it. In Season 2."
"And then they were like, 'It needs to be Din. Not him,'" the actress continued. "So then you shoot a person's death and then they take it out and then there's still a scene left and then everyone's like, where'd they go?"
This explains why he was absent from the final battle aboard Moff Gideon's ship, something that raised many questions among fans seeing as he'd previously fought side-by-side with Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves. After season 3, we can put it down to him having a difference of opinion with his leader, but now know Woves was supposed to be dead and gone when Luke Skywalker showed up to save the day.
As for the moment Sackhoff alludes to here, we're guessing it's either when Din took on that hallway full of Stormroopers or perhaps even somehow related to his clash with Gideon (it's possible he and Woves originally fought the villain, with the latter killed in the process).
We're glad he lived to fight another day, anyway, as Axe was given the chance to shine in season 3 including in a finale that saw him send that cruiser hurtling into Gideon's base, a moment that led to the Moff's fiery demise.