Promoting Friday's season two premiere of The Mandalorian on Disney+, Pedro Pascal was a guest on Good Morning America earlier today. Unfortunately, there was no sign of a new trailer or footage, but the actor did drop some exciting hints about what fans can look forward to later this week.
Pascal talked specifically about the first episode of The Mandalorian's second season, and said that after reading it, he "was taken aback in a really good way at how impressive the first episode read."
"Already with the evidence of the first season, knowing that they were able to achieve everything that they set out to, and seeing this incredibly ostentatious first episode with the story of an action sequence and the way that it read on the page and just that feeling that ‘My gosh, they’re going to achieve this visual experience!’" the Wonder Woman 1984 star continued. "Like, this isn’t just ‘Let’s just describe it as best as we can and see what we end up achieving with it’ – it is undoubtedly going to be achieved, and I kind of couldn’t believe that, and I understood ‘Oh, so this is how they keep it up with the second season; this is how they don’t disappoint.'"
Pascal is obviously getting a lot of attention ahead of the season two premiere, but so is The Child.
The actor's puppet co-star is perhaps the most beloved Star Wars character to come along since, well, ever, and Pascal is a big fan of working with "him" in the Disney+ TV series. "This baby is beautiful, and the details on the Child are incredible. We’re talking about this adorable peach fuzz hair on the tips of its ears. You’d be surprised, he’s an incredible scene partner. Industrial Light and Magic, the effects team that work the puppet in a scene with me, you wouldn’t believe what they’d be able to do."
"I’m not sure if it’ll be in the final cut, but I improvised a line at the start of a scene. Basically, ‘don’t get too close to the fire’, and Baby Yoda, like, turned its head and reacted to me, and like, moved away from that, and that wasn’t even in the writing. So there I am improvising with Baby Yoda!"
That's pretty incredible, and hopefully a moment we do get to see in The Mandalorian this year.