The Acolyte’s Stars Mirror on Its Stunning Cancellation

Earlier this week, Disney introduced that Star Wars sequence The Acolyte gained’t return for a second season, a lot to the thunderous applause of the Gamergate-esque followers who see the present’s cancelation as Lucasfilm capitulating to their harassment campaign against lead actor Amandla Stenberg. Now, a few of its different stars are reflecting on the present’s sudden finish.

In a current interview with Entertainment Weekly, Grasp Sol actor Lee Jung-jae expressed his disappointment with the information whereas praising creator Leslye Headland’s directing and crafting of the script and characters.

“As you understand, my character had died already within the first season,” Lee informed EW. “So I wouldn’t have appeared within the second season if there was one anyway. However personally talking, I actually beloved Leslye’s writing. I assumed that she was an ideal author and director who was very gifted within the storytelling, in addition to creating characters and creating significant buildings inside the story. So I used to be really personally actually trying ahead to watching a season two along with her on the helm.”

Grasp Sol’s dying however, Lee hopes that the pre-prequel-era present will probably be revived sooner or later.

“To listen to the information, I used to be fairly stunned personally as properly,” Lee continued. “Truthfully, I’m hoping that perhaps there may very well be adjustments sooner or later. Since you by no means know what’s going to occur. So on a private stage, I actually hope we might get to see additional tales of Leslye’s second season.”

Lee wasn’t the one Star Wars actor to mourn The Acolyte‘s cancellation. Manny Jacinto (Qimir/The Stranger) shared a picture of his character holding fingers with Stenfield’s Osha on a seaside—the present’s remaining shot—with a coronary heart caption on his Instagram web page.

Set throughout Star Wars‘ Excessive Republic period, 100 years previous to the occasions of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte adopted twin sisters performed by Stenberg who had been tragically separated as youngsters—then ended up following totally different paths that led them again collectively, as representatives of each the sunshine and darkish sides of the Pressure fought to utilize their skills.

Except for Stenberg, Jacinto, and Lee, the forged additionally featured Charlie Barnett, Dafne Eager, Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Margarita Levieva, Harry Trevaldwyn, David Harewood, and Joonas Suotamo—with just a few shock Star Wars character cameos too, as Disney+ exhibits all the time like to do. You’ll be able to stream The Acolyte‘s first, and presumably solely, season now on Disney+.

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