Though these days I’ve been ready to listen to about if Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will return for Season 2, I’d be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t additionally nonetheless enthusiastic about The Acolyte being cancelled after only one season. The cancellation got here only a month after the sequence finale aired, and in contrast to fellow Disney+ Star Wars exhibits The E book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the purpose had been to present it a multi-season run. Daphne Eager, who performed Jecki Lon on The Acolyte, has now shared how she reacted upon studying that the Excessive Republic-set sequence can be a one-and-done affair.
Final summer season was an enormous one for Eager, as a result of along with becoming a member of a galaxy far, far-off, she additionally reprised Laura, a.okay.a. X-23, in Deadpool & Wolverine. Alas, whereas the thirty fourth of the Marvel films so as shortly turned a essential and business success, The Acolyte’s time got here and went. The actress admitted that the sequence, which might nonetheless be streamed with a Disney+ subscription, being cancelled was troublesome for her, although she’s in the end happy with what she and the remainder of the solid and crew created collectively. As Eager informed ScreenRant:
It is positively, I believe, overwhelming for all of us. I believe we have been all very pleased with what we created. I do know I am very proud [of my character], I used to be very pleased with how my pal Amandla dealt with the scenario. And truthfully, I am an enormous nerd myself, so I used to be simply actually comfortable that I bought to play a Jedi. Bucket listing ticked.
Whereas Disney and Lucasfilm have by no means given an official purpose for why The Acolyte was cancelled, it was reported that the choice stemmed from low viewership numbers and going over finances. Nevertheless, as Dafne Eager alluded to, the sequence was hit with plenty of racist backlash, with lead actress Amandla Stenberg receiving the brunt of it. Stenberg, who performed Osha and Mae, even admitted a bit over per week after the cancellation that this transfer “was not an enormous shock” for her. Jodie Turner-Smith, who performed Mom Aniseya, stated that Disney not coming to the protection of The Acolyte’s expertise was “actually unfair.”
However trying again on her expertise, Eager is grateful she was capable of seem within the Star Wars universe, although it was only for a short while. In spite of everything, even when The Acolyte had been renewed, the Logan alum wouldn’t have been round for it. Jecki Lon was among the many many Jedi killed by Manny Jacinto’s The Stranger, the Sith Lord who served because the present’s principal antagonist. Oh, and that’s one more reason to be disenchanted about The Acolyte being cancelled: we’ll by no means study his connection to Darth Plagueis, who cameoed within the finale.
It’s like Dafne Eager stated, although: she bought to play a Jedi, which knocked an entry off her bucket listing. If she ever reveals one thing else she’s crossed off that listing, we’ll let you recognize. For now, do not forget that Andor Season 2 is subsequent on the upcoming Star Wars TV exhibits slate, premiering on April 22.