Star Wars actor on how shock Rise of Skywalker cameo occurred

Among the numerous cameos in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s Jedi voices scene, one of many largest surprises was Ahsoka Tano.

The Clone Wars and Rebels character and former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker is a agency favorite amongst followers, so it made numerous sense that she joined Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda and others in guiding Rey in her remaining battle with the Emperor.

Ashley Eckstein, who voices Ahsoka within the TV reveals, has now opened up about how she landed the job within the film, admitting she was shocked when her cameo truly ended up within the remaining minimize.

“Yeah, talk about mind-blowing, that was one of the top moments of my career, for sure,” she informed Comic Book Resources.

“I’ve bought to present credit score to Matthew Wood who’s the voice of General Grievous but in addition [a sound engineer] at Skywalker Sound – he is critically acclaimed not only for the Star Wars motion pictures however for all types of flicks.

“And Matthew Wood reached out to me sooner or later and, from what I’ve been informed, he had this concept of bringing the voices of previous Jedi to Rey and he needed Ahsoka to be included, which I believed was simply so unbelievable.

“And I did not imagine it as a result of I used to be informed that it was a ‘perhaps’ till I used to be actually within the studio with JJ Abrams at Bad Robot recording the traces.

“I truly did not document the traces till October and, as soon as I recorded them, I nonetheless did not imagine it as a result of something can occur in motion pictures,” Eckstein continued. “As they are saying, it [could have] ended up on the reducing room ground.

“But it wasn’t till I used to be sitting on the premiere of The Rise of Skywalker and I heard Ahsoka say ‘because it guided us’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, I am unable to imagine it made it.’ So it is positively an honor.

“Clone Wars is taken into account canon as a result of it was what George Lucas created, however The Rise of Skywalker is a part of the Skywalker Saga of movies, and it is actually cool, not solely professionally, to say that I bought to be in it however extra so for Ahsoka to be cemented into the Skywalker Saga of movies is basically particular for the character.”

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is on the market to pre-order on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now.

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