Katee Sackhoff desires to be in a galaxy far, distant from “The Mandalorian.”
The actress, 45, voiced Bo-Katan Kryze for years within the “Star Wars” animated exhibits “The Clone Wars” and “Rebels,” earlier than she made her live-action debut because the character within the second season of “The Mandalorian” in 2020.
However enjoying Bo-Katan herself ended up not being an excellent expertise for Sackhoff.
“I misplaced all of my confidence after ‘Mandalorian’ — all of it,” Sackhoff mentioned through the Aug. 12 episode of her YouTube channel.
“My type of performing has all the time simply been your first intuition is the precise intuition. Try this. Play the fact of the scenario,” she defined. “And I’ve by no means actually performed a character. I’ve all the time performed two steps faraway from myself, in a way. It aways felt grounded in some a part of my stomach of who I used to be.”
“Bo-Katan is nowhere close to who I’m as a human being,” Sackoff acknowledged. “Her life, what she desires — like, I didn’t perceive her. As a lot as I understood her, I by no means felt her in my abdomen. I by no means recognized together with her. I didn’t know tips on how to discover her.”
The “Battlestar Galactica” alum mentioned her lack of ability to attach together with her “Star Wars” character was “very scary.”
“It broke me. It simply broke me, the place I began doubting every thing about myself,” she shared.
“I’m not a robust auditioner on tape, and I used to be having to place myself on tape,” Sackoff continued. “I wasn’t reserving something. And for 3 years, I mainly didn’t work. And it simply destroyed my confidence.”
Sackoff recalled that she was “damaged” and felt “misplaced” on the time, which led to her getting right into a “screaming” match together with her supervisor who was “dismissive” of her issues.
So, Sackoff employed a brand new manger who launched her to an performing coach, and ultimately, that particular person helped the “24” star achieve her confidence once more.
Sackoff appeared in ten episodes of “The Mandalorian” from 2020 to 2023. The Disney+ sequence stars Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin, a lone Mandalorian bounty hunter, and is ready after the occasions of “Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi” (1983).
It’s unclear if Sackoff might be within the 2026 film “The Mandalorian & Grogu.”
As for her subsequent function, Sackoff might be in Mike Flanagan’s upcoming “Carrie” sequence for Prime Video. The present is predicated on Stephen King’s iconic 1974 horror novel.
