Leslye Headland Was “Starstruck” Seeing Yoda on the Set of ‘The Acolyte’
While The Acolyte was a high-octane show full of numerous twists and turns, the show saved perhaps its biggest surprise for the last.
Though the events of the latest Star Wars Disney+ series were removed from the Skywalker Saga by roughly 100 years, the final scene in The Acolyte featured Jedi Master Vernestra meeting with Yoda.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland discussed the Yoda cameo.
As it turns out, The Acolyte team felt that they needed to include Yoda to “balance the scales” after Sith Lord Darth Plagueis appeared earlier in the episode.
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“That’s why it was important to introduce Yoda,” Headland recalled. “If you were going to introduce Plagueis, then you needed a formidable other side of that. As somebody that knows who Plagueis is and knows where the lineage of the Sith is headed, it would be imbalanced if you didn’t have somebody on the light side who carried as much gravitas. So to me it just made sense.”
“It Was Stunning”
As a self-proclaimed Star Wars nerd, Headland admits that seeing Yoda on set was an emotional experience.
“Seeing him in person, I have never been so starstruck in my life. I felt like I saw my entire life flash before my eyes. I felt like I was meeting an entity, not a puppet, but an entity.”
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Of the entire Acolyte experience, Headland says that seeing Yoda was the “cherry on top.”
“As a lifelong Star Wars fan, it was stunning. Literally, in the true sense of that word, I was stunned.”
The Acolyte is streaming on Disney+.
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