Whereas Katee Sackhoff was actually a well known actor previous to 2020 due to Battlestar Galactica, Longmire, Riddick, 24 and numerous different tasks, her profile undoubtedly acquired a significant increase from The Mandalorian. Following her animated outings as Bo-Katan Kryze in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, Sackhoff introduced her Star Wars character to life in live-action within the Disney+ subscription-exclusive present’s second season, then returned for Season 3. Within the midst of that although, there was one thing that triggered Sackhoff to lose “all” of her confidence and doubt her performing skills.
The actress talked about this darkish time in her life whereas she was chatting along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star Tahmoh Penikett on The Sackhoff Present, the place the 2 of them additionally mirrored on how they had been unsuitable to reject Edward James Olmos’ recommendation after they had been youthful. Sackhoff knowledgeable Penikett that she “simply now found out a course of virtually 30 years” into her performing profession and employed an performing coach. When he requested her to elaborate, she began off by saying:
… What had occurred was I misplaced all of my confidence after Mandalorian… My fashion of performing has at all times simply been your first intuition is the appropriate intuition. Try this. Play the truth of the state of affairs. And I’ve by no means actually performed a personality. You understand what I imply? I’ve at all times performed two steps faraway from myself, in a way. Like, it at all times 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. Her life, what she needs. I did not perceive her. As a lot as I understood her, I by no means felt her in my abdomen. I by no means recognized along with her. I did not know the right way to discover her.
It’s one factor to voice a personality throughout a handful of episodes of two animated TV exhibits (and later the anthology collection Star Wars: Tales of the Empire), however taking part in Bo-Katan on digicam marked a significant turning level for Katee Sackhoff. Extra eyes had been on her than ever, and whereas it might have regarded on the skin like she was successfully taking part in the character, the expertise was sufficient for her to start out doubting herself as a result of she wasn’t ready to connect with Bo-Katan on a deeper degree. Sackhoff continued:
It broke me. It simply broke me the place I began doubting every thing about myself. I’m not a powerful auditioner on tape and I used to be having to place myself on tape. I wasn’t reserving something, and for 3 years, I mainly did not work… I broke down. I used to be crying at some point with [Michael Trucco] at his kitchen counter. And he was like, ‘You are going to be fantastic. You at all times work.’ And I used to be like, ‘I’m not okay, man. I am not working. I am so damaged. I’ve acquired no confidence left. I do not know what to do. I’m misplaced.’
Michael Trucco is one other one in all Katee Sackhoff’s Battlestar Galactica cohorts, and she or he and him have remained shut for the reason that present resulted in 2009. That’s exemplified by how she was keen to be susceptible in entrance of him about her performing struggles. She then instructed Tahmoh Penikett about how she was “scrambling” at this level as a result of she “had no approach to fall again on,” which then led to a conflict along with her ex-manager:
And the worst factor was my previous supervisor would say issues like, ‘That is simply straightforward for you. It is really easy for you. You do not even must strive. Simply cease attempting. You are attempting too arduous.” And he would say, ‘You are simply higher at this. Simply cease.’ And I I misplaced it at him at some point and began screaming. I used to be like, ‘Cease saying that to me. You are destroying me since you’ve instructed me my complete life it is easy for me and it is not fucking straightforward. And now I am at some extent the place I am falling aside as a result of it is not straightforward, and also you’re telling me it is easy. It is so dismissive.
From there, Katee Sackhoff employed a brand new supervisor, instructed him how she felt, and he set her up with an performing coach. That coach then instructed Sackhoff it wasn’t her purpose to show her out to behave since she already knew how to do this, however simply to get the Kara Thrace actress again in her “stomach.” Evidently it labored, as Sackhoff appears like she’s in a way more assured place. In any other case, I doubt she would have mentioned this topic whereas Tahmoh Penikett was showing on her podcast.
That stated, it’s unclear once we’ll see Katee Sackhoff reprise Bo-Katan Kryze once more. Though The Mandalorian & Grogu comes out on Could 22, 2026, however right here’s been no point out of her being within the forged. Nonetheless, given each Sackhoff and Bo-Katan’s reputation, I’ve to suppose there’ll come a day when she returns to the Star Wars universe, even when it’s not essentially tied to Din Djarin’s story.