Mandalorian stars were not informed about the casting of Mark Hamill until he reached the set

According to Gina Carano, the Mandalorian stars did not know about the cast of Mark Hamill at the end of season 2 until the day of filming.

According to Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, she and the other stars of the show did not know about the cast of Mark Hamill at the end of season 2 until the day of filming.

“I started to find out about it in the makeup trailer, basically because you’re like, ‘Oh, wait, who is this?'” Carano told Drunk 3PO. “And because they didn’t say that in the script … everyone who worked on The Mandalorian is insane, like insane Star Wars fans. And they have the shirts and they’re like, ‘Wait a second.’ And so, everyone starts to whisper a little bit. “

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The MandalorianThe end of Luke Skywalker’s second season came to his rescue, just as Din Djarin and his allies were about to be crushed by the Dark Troopers aboard Moff Gideon’s light cruiser. Since Luke is decades younger than Hamill is at the point The Mandalorian occurs in Star Wars In the timeline, the episode used a CGI version of Hamill’s image for Luke’s face, which was digitally animated over actor Max Lloyd-Jones (who served as Hamill’s body double for the finale).

Shortly after The Mandalorian The end of season 2 started to flow, Hamill admitted that he was surprised that his cameo was not spoiled ahead of time. “The fact that we were able to keep my involvement a secret for over a year, without leaks, is nothing short of a miracle,” he tweeted. He later expressed his gratitude to The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and producer / executive director Dave Filoni for giving him a chance to return as Luke after the Star Wars sequential trilogy, saying, “Sometimes the greatest gifts are the most unexpected and something you never realized you wanted until it was given.”

Ming-Na Wen, who played the assassin Fennec Shand in The Mandalorianfor the first two seasons, he later praised Hamill for his role at the end of season 2, tweeting that he was “immensely inspiring [and] impacting for my childhood “, before adding” Having shared a scene with you in [The Mandalorian] it’s really one of the biggest highlights, not only in my career, but in my life. Hamill returned the compliment to Wen on Twitter, saying he was “literally speechless, except to say: the pleasure was all mine”.

Created by Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers and Giancarlo Esposito. Seasons 1 and 2 are now airing on Disney +.

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