Warning: SPOILERS for the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Season 1 finale are forward!
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has completed its run on the 2025 TV schedule, and the Season 1 finale, titled “The Actual Good Guys,” was notable in additional methods than one. Along with the backstory for Jude Regulation’s Jod Na Nawood lastly being revealed, Wim, performed by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, lastly received to wield the lightsaber from Tak Rennod’s secret base correctly after beforehand bungling the chance in “You Have a Lot to Study About Pirates.” Cabot-Conyers described this as a “pivotal and necessary” second for his character whereas opening as much as CinemaBlend about what it was like taking pictures it.
I had the pleasure of talking with Cabot-Conyers shortly after the discharge of the Skeleton Crew Season 1 finale to Disney+ subscription holders. Naturally I needed to ask him throughout our dialog what it was like filming that scene, particularly since I’m pretty sure Wim is the youngest main character in a live-action Star Wars film and TV present to wield a lightsaber. Right here’s what he advised me:
Oh my gosh. It was so thrilling. Once I discovered I used to be gonna get to do this, I genuinely couldn’t consider it. It was loopy. Studying it, I used to be like, ‘That is actually gonna occur. That is actually gonna be me.’ It is so attention-grabbing. I would at all times questioned how they shot and filmed with the lightsabers. As a result of it is very attention-grabbing the way it occurs. It was principally, like, the deal with to the lightsaber, the half that you simply maintain. After which it was slightly see-through rod that got here out of it, after which there was anyone working it, after which it lit up when it wanted to. It was actually cool. Such an incredible second. It is so pivotal and necessary to Wim’s arc. I really feel like his arc was wanting an journey, experiencing the journey, after which realizing how proper he was in wanting an journey due to how enjoyable and thrilling and thrilling it’s, except for the pirates and plunder [laughs] hat went on. However they did so many tight photographs too of that little second with the lightsaber, and oh my gosh, I felt so cool. [laugh]. It was so enjoyable.
For many of “The Actual Good Guys,” the lightsaber remained in Jod Na-Nawood’s possession as he coordinated his pirate crew’s invasion of At-Attin. He even demonstrated some first rate proficiency with the weapon when he blocked some stun blasts geared toward him. This was as a result of as a ravenous youngster, he’d been discovered by a Jedi and acquired some coaching within the methods of the Drive, however his Grasp was killed both throughout Order 66 or early into the Empire’s reign.
Nonetheless, through the wrestle within the room containing the Supervisor, Wim and Fern had been in a position to get the lightsaber away from Jod, and whereas the barrier surrounding At-Attin was destroyed, Wim ignited the blue blade. Somewhat than use the Drive to take the weapon again or shoot the children who’d foiled his plan, Jude Regulation’s character merely tossed his blaster apart and admitted defeat. There have been loads of shifting items that coalesced into Wim getting to make use of the lightsaber, and Ravi Cabot-Conyers advised me that complete sequence was his favourite to shoot whereas making Star Wars: Skeleton Crew once I introduced up that subject. In his phrases:
Oh, that’s so tough. I feel it is gotta be the scene from episode eight with the lightsaber, positively. I really feel like the entire sequence with Jod and Wendell and Farrah and Fern was a lot enjoyable to movie. Oh gosh, that will need to have taken possibly a number of weeks to movie that complete sequence, ‘trigger there’s a lot that goes on. There was a lot stunt work that we did, which was a lot enjoyable. Like the entire half the place I am pulling the lightsaber and we’ve to fall backwards. Yeah, that was one which was positively one in every of my favourite components of that sequence to movie. Clearly holding the lightsaber is without doubt one of the coolest issues I’ve ever carried out [laughs]. Additionally simply the entire interplay between Wim and Jod, amongst all of them, was enjoyable within the sense that it was enjoyable to movie, however loopy thrilling little sequence. I beloved it.
Contemplating how enamored Wim was with tales of the Jedi earlier than he went on his journey with Neel, Fern and KB, getting to carry that lightsaber even for just a bit bit will need to have been a dream come true. Admittedly, there was nothing to point throughout Skeleton Crew with Wim is Drive-sensitive, however there’s nothing proving that he’s not both. Both means, if we see Wim once more in one of many upcoming Star Wars films and TV exhibits, I’m hopeful he nonetheless has the lightsaber in his possession slightly than it having been confiscated by the New Republic. With correct parental supervision, he deserves to no less than study the fundamentals of utilizing it.
Now that Skeleton Crew Season 1 is over and we await for on if Season 2 will occur, the subsequent Star Wars small display screen providing on the docket is Andor Season 2, which premieres on April 22. Ahsoka Season 2 can also be on the way in which, although no launch date for it has been set but.