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- Gentlemen, it's so
exciting to talk to you

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about "Mandalorian", finally.

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Season two ended with
bringing in Luke Skywalker.

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Obviously not a decision
you guys came to lightly.

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So talk to me a little
bit about your thoughts

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about balancing that Pandora's
box of fan expectations,

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also the shrinking of the universe,

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'cause it's all always been about Luke,

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but "Mandalorian" wasn't until then.

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- Right, the whole first season

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I don't think that there were any.

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Though there were Easter eggs,

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and I guess you can count
R5 in the background.

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- Yeah, yeah.
- Was that in season one?

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Yeah, that was, right?
- I think so.

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- R5.

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We steered completely clear.

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But in season two,

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because we had already
established ourselves,

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we were definitely open to
what could or should overlap.

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And like, for example, there
was a lot of discussion

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about that Mandalorians
don't take their helmets off,

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but yet in "The Clone Wars"

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clearly their helmets
are off all the time.

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And so instead of running from that

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we figured let's go right
at it and have Bo-Katan,

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and because we also had Katee Sackhoff

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as somebody who played both roles,

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it seemed like a really fun choice for us.

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So that was something that was
meant to help clarify things.

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And with Luke, that was something,

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I remember as we were discussing
who it could or should be,

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and you count who's left,
- [Germain] Yeah, right.

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- and who's out there, and what
we understand that character

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to have been doing, he was like,

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"It doesn't make sense for
it to be anything else,

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anybody else but Luke."

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And so that's why we
brought Mark Hamill in

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while we were editing season
one before it had aired

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and showed him.

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We brought him in to do a droid voice,

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and that was our way to get him in

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so that people weren't gonna be suspicious

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if we saw him coming in or out.

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- Always it goes.

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- We showed him the
episodes and the reveal

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of Grogu and all that,
and he was up for it.

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And then it became about

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how do you actually
achieve it, accomplish it,

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and keep it a secret.

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But it was all story driven is my point.

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It was all about what makes the most sense

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at any given time.

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But that's a losing battle

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if we're gonna try to
keep out doing surprises

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on that level, we're
never gonna get there.

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But what we can do is we could

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maybe have some unexpected choices happen

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and have interesting reveals,
but all of it has to be

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in service of the story and
the character development.

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(tense music)