1 00:00:07,048 --> 00:00:09,300 (DEBORAH CHOW ON PA) 2 00:00:12,929 --> 00:00:14,681 (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) 3 00:00:16,307 --> 00:00:20,311 JON FAVREAU: We're in kind of a unique situation in the Star Wars galaxy 4 00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:22,772 where we're part of something bigger, 5 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:28,069 but we're also carving out our own story that follows these characters. 6 00:00:28,903 --> 00:00:33,074 The first season of The Mandalorian was really about 7 00:00:33,158 --> 00:00:34,617 just these simple stories 8 00:00:34,701 --> 00:00:37,537 that were gonna be about a bounty of the week. 9 00:00:37,620 --> 00:00:39,372 THE MANDALORIAN: I can bring you in warm... 10 00:00:41,082 --> 00:00:42,709 Or I can bring you in cold. 11 00:00:42,792 --> 00:00:45,420 FAMUYIWA: The events of season two started to come together 12 00:00:45,503 --> 00:00:49,674 and I think for Jon and Dave, that really started to ricochet 13 00:00:49,758 --> 00:00:52,802 in terms of where that could go for season three. 14 00:00:53,386 --> 00:00:55,096 FAVREAU: We introduced a lot of new characters, 15 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,516 or, a lot of them are legacy characters, in the second season. 16 00:00:59,184 --> 00:01:02,145 And each one of them had their own trajectory. 17 00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:05,231 The Darksaber. It belongs to you. 18 00:01:05,315 --> 00:01:07,484 She can't take it. 19 00:01:08,568 --> 00:01:10,987 It must be won in battle. 20 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:14,324 By seeing how those characters interacted 21 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:15,450 and what was going on 22 00:01:15,533 --> 00:01:18,536 in the Star Wars galaxy at that time post-war, 23 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:22,165 there were certain things that started to unfold in a very organic way. 24 00:01:22,874 --> 00:01:26,377 Taking all the work I had done with Mandalorians 25 00:01:26,461 --> 00:01:28,379 and bringing it together with all the work 26 00:01:28,463 --> 00:01:30,590 Jon and things he had imagined about Mandalorians 27 00:01:30,673 --> 00:01:32,759 were finding the way between the two things. 28 00:01:32,842 --> 00:01:36,805 And along the way, we met other fantastic storytellers 29 00:01:36,888 --> 00:01:39,099 like Rick Famuyiwa, who became a part of our team, 30 00:01:39,182 --> 00:01:41,476 Noah Kloor, who became a part of our team 31 00:01:41,559 --> 00:01:44,145 and added depth and dimension to everything we were doing. 32 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:47,857 FAVREAU: Kathy Kennedy, ever since, you know, bringing Dave and I together 33 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:50,026 to collaborate on The Mandalorian in season one, 34 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:54,989 has helped us identify a lot of other great filmmakers to work with. 35 00:01:55,073 --> 00:01:58,535 FILONI: So now, it's just not one or two people's vision 36 00:01:58,618 --> 00:02:01,079 of how these people come together, it's a group of us. 37 00:02:01,162 --> 00:02:03,456 And our galaxy's getting bigger and more fuller 38 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:04,874 than it's ever been before. 39 00:02:04,958 --> 00:02:07,877 The storytelling is not just about good story well told, 40 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:11,840 it is also about pushing the medium of filmmaking forward. 41 00:02:11,923 --> 00:02:14,092 That is thrilling. 42 00:02:14,175 --> 00:02:18,221 And every single season, Jon ups the ante. 43 00:02:18,304 --> 00:02:21,099 CARL WEATHERS: It's just been an absolute joy to come to work 44 00:02:21,182 --> 00:02:23,059 and really to ask myself a question, 45 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:26,855 which has become a part of my mantra now, "What am I gonna learn today?" 46 00:02:26,938 --> 00:02:30,775 You know, between Rick and Jon and Dave and Bryce 47 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:34,195 and whomever else is working on a given day, 48 00:02:34,279 --> 00:02:37,907 you can learn something from them, and I steal it all. 49 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:39,742 I felt so good about that, I wanna do it again. 50 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:40,827 (LAUGHTER) 51 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:44,038 FAMUYIWA: The founding spirit, I think, of the first season 52 00:02:44,122 --> 00:02:47,375 was the idea of these talented directors, in their own right 53 00:02:47,458 --> 00:02:51,254 coming in to the show and bringing their points of view and vision 54 00:02:51,337 --> 00:02:56,593 but still having that point of view sort of fit under the overarching umbrella 55 00:02:56,676 --> 00:03:00,930 of how Jon and Dave have seen the world from the beginning. 56 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:04,434 And so, I think as each season has gone on, 57 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:06,686 there's been these new voices that have come in. 58 00:03:06,769 --> 00:03:08,396 (FAVREAU SPEAKING) 59 00:03:14,569 --> 00:03:17,614 I was a director on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 60 00:03:18,239 --> 00:03:19,699 among a couple of other things. 61 00:03:19,782 --> 00:03:23,286 I think they had the feeling that someone who'd worked in animation 62 00:03:23,369 --> 00:03:24,871 and sort of had a background 63 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:28,166 in dealing with the kind of previsualization that you do 64 00:03:28,249 --> 00:03:32,003 in storyboards and in a lot of the phases of animation 65 00:03:32,086 --> 00:03:35,131 might be a good fit for the way this process rolls out. 66 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:38,218 I think your look has to come all the way around and not stay there. 67 00:03:38,301 --> 00:03:40,011 CAREY JONES: So it comes back to the front? 68 00:03:40,136 --> 00:03:41,429 RAMSEY: Yeah, back to the front, 69 00:03:41,512 --> 00:03:43,264 because then we'll catch you in a nice profile. 70 00:03:43,348 --> 00:03:48,770 I've been a Star Wars fan since, really since the first movie came out. 71 00:03:48,853 --> 00:03:53,566 So hearing about the possibility of being part of the show felt unreal. 72 00:03:58,696 --> 00:04:02,867 LEE ISAAC CHUNG: I was editing my film Minari in 2019 73 00:04:02,951 --> 00:04:04,869 and my editor was telling me, 74 00:04:04,953 --> 00:04:08,248 "You have to watch this show called Mandalorian." 75 00:04:08,331 --> 00:04:11,668 And it became the show that I was going to. 76 00:04:11,751 --> 00:04:14,170 I was just talking to my agents and I said, 77 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:18,091 "If there's anyway I can talk to Jon Favreau, 78 00:04:18,174 --> 00:04:22,887 "I'd love to just say hello to him and then ask him for a job." 79 00:04:22,971 --> 00:04:25,306 Lo and behold, they were able to get a hold of Jon. 80 00:04:25,390 --> 00:04:28,518 He had seen my film. He said that he enjoyed it. 81 00:04:28,601 --> 00:04:30,895 And we had a wonderful conversation. 82 00:04:30,979 --> 00:04:35,566 And I basically told him I would love to do this show if it's possible. 83 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:38,319 And he told me, "Okay, we'll have you." 84 00:04:38,403 --> 00:04:43,366 It just really blew my mind and got me so excited about coming in here. 85 00:04:43,449 --> 00:04:46,577 You would barrel roll as you are approaching the planet. 86 00:04:46,661 --> 00:04:48,121 -KATEE SACKHOFF: Okay. -CHUNG: We'll see. 87 00:04:48,204 --> 00:04:49,497 SACKHOFF: Okay. Beautiful. 88 00:04:50,164 --> 00:04:53,334 RACHEL MORRISON: When I got the call to do Mandalorian, I delved into it. 89 00:04:53,418 --> 00:04:55,295 Obviously, I had heard about the Volume. 90 00:04:55,378 --> 00:04:58,589 And it felt like a chance to try something that I hadn't tried before. 91 00:04:58,673 --> 00:05:01,509 Anything we can do to make it feel like it's a shot about Baby? 92 00:05:01,592 --> 00:05:02,635 MAN: Cool. 93 00:05:02,719 --> 00:05:05,513 MORRISON: With this guy kind of come flying at us through frame. 94 00:05:05,596 --> 00:05:09,600 I think my background in cinematography absolutely informs my work as a director. 95 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:11,227 I think with my heart, 96 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:13,396 I feel with my heart, I shoot with my heart. 97 00:05:13,479 --> 00:05:16,983 Our currency is empathy and is emotion. 98 00:05:17,066 --> 00:05:20,028 And that translates whether it's physically 99 00:05:20,111 --> 00:05:21,571 and technically through the lens 100 00:05:21,654 --> 00:05:24,824 or working with an actor and making them feel something. 101 00:05:24,907 --> 00:05:27,118 The Empire set out to punish us. 102 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:29,996 To wipe away our memory. 103 00:05:31,372 --> 00:05:34,250 MORRISON: This experience has been really eye-opening from me. 104 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:35,793 Because I'm somebody who spent 105 00:05:35,877 --> 00:05:38,338 the better part of at least a couple decades 106 00:05:38,421 --> 00:05:42,967 thinking a grounded drama had to be a literal grounded drama. 107 00:05:43,634 --> 00:05:47,347 And then to realize, thanks to The Mandalorian 108 00:05:47,430 --> 00:05:51,017 that you drop anything that one can relate to 109 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:53,144 into a world and it's still grounded. 110 00:05:53,227 --> 00:05:56,564 And it's still relatable and it's still emotional. 111 00:05:58,024 --> 00:05:59,400 (STRAINING) 112 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:04,822 HOWARD: There's a challenge inherent in this series 113 00:06:04,906 --> 00:06:07,742 when it comes to relationships 114 00:06:07,825 --> 00:06:11,788 because our main character is wearing a helmet the entire time. 115 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:17,585 And so, I think that so much of what is being explored thematically 116 00:06:17,668 --> 00:06:22,548 has to do with intimacy, vulnerability and kind of the mask 117 00:06:22,632 --> 00:06:24,509 that we put over that. 118 00:06:24,592 --> 00:06:26,052 (BABBLES) 119 00:06:27,136 --> 00:06:30,556 Allowing a helmet or a mask to be the face of a character, 120 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,435 that's something I really associate with the original trilogy growing up. 121 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:36,396 You think of Darth Vader. 122 00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:41,651 You think of the droids, you think of C-3PO or you think of R2-D2. 123 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:44,445 C-3PO: Behave yourself, R2. You're going to get us into trouble. 124 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:46,739 I really wanted to take on the challenge. 125 00:06:46,823 --> 00:06:48,533 And Dave and I discussed this a lot. 126 00:06:48,616 --> 00:06:50,326 "Can we have a show where somebody, 127 00:06:50,410 --> 00:06:52,578 "where your lead character's face is hidden?" 128 00:06:54,372 --> 00:06:56,791 By balancing that character out with Grogu, 129 00:06:56,874 --> 00:07:00,044 you have this bifurcated lead. 130 00:07:00,128 --> 00:07:06,300 Which is a very human, vulnerable, empathetic, soulful little child 131 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:13,057 and then you have this character who has lived life and done many things... 132 00:07:13,141 --> 00:07:18,438 You can only imagine what challenges and adventures this guy has faced. 133 00:07:18,521 --> 00:07:22,024 It was the combination of these characters that became the heart and soul. 134 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:26,737 And we knew that we had to work our way to that inevitable separation a few times. 135 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:30,241 And then this season was about bringing them back together again. 136 00:07:30,324 --> 00:07:34,704 A Mandalorian has to understand maps and know their way around. 137 00:07:35,663 --> 00:07:38,166 That way, you'll never be lost. 138 00:07:42,211 --> 00:07:44,088 FAMUYIWA: When we start season three, 139 00:07:44,172 --> 00:07:49,051 he's squarely faced with the ramifications of the decision 140 00:07:49,135 --> 00:07:53,598 he made in season two where he took off his helmet 141 00:07:53,681 --> 00:07:56,058 in order to help The Child. 142 00:07:56,142 --> 00:07:57,435 THE MANDALORIAN: All right, pal. 143 00:07:57,518 --> 00:07:58,519 It's time to go. 144 00:07:58,603 --> 00:07:59,729 Don't be afraid. 145 00:08:00,688 --> 00:08:03,816 FAMUYIWA: There are repercussions that happen because of that. 146 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,611 ARMORER: You have removed your helmet. 147 00:08:08,446 --> 00:08:12,533 What's worse, you did so of your own free will. 148 00:08:13,743 --> 00:08:15,870 You are no longer Mandalorian. 149 00:08:15,953 --> 00:08:20,041 And then the, sort of, exploration of that opens up our world 150 00:08:20,124 --> 00:08:24,629 into many different points of view on what it means to be Mandalorian. 151 00:08:24,712 --> 00:08:27,423 And what does it mean to be The Mandalorian. 152 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:33,262 Your cult gave up on Mandalore long before the Purge. 153 00:08:34,972 --> 00:08:36,265 Where were you then? 154 00:08:36,891 --> 00:08:41,854 Bo in many respects this season is also The Mandalorian. 155 00:08:41,938 --> 00:08:45,441 'Cause it's so much about her story and her journey 156 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:49,820 and her, sort of, initial ideas of going back 157 00:08:49,904 --> 00:08:52,782 and bringing her people back together 158 00:08:52,865 --> 00:08:56,536 that got derailed after she lost the Darksaber. 159 00:08:56,619 --> 00:08:57,870 I am here to join you. 160 00:08:59,539 --> 00:09:01,123 There's nothing left to join. 161 00:09:03,084 --> 00:09:05,044 What of your plans to retake Mandalore? 162 00:09:07,046 --> 00:09:11,175 When I returned without the Darksaber, my forces melted away. 163 00:09:11,259 --> 00:09:14,512 She earned her stripes in adventures that we've all seen. 164 00:09:14,595 --> 00:09:19,308 From nobility and she's been part of Death Watch. 165 00:09:19,392 --> 00:09:22,270 She's existed in many different contexts. 166 00:09:22,353 --> 00:09:25,565 And she's also a character where there's room for development. 167 00:09:25,648 --> 00:09:28,067 Not all Mandalorians are bounty hunters. 168 00:09:29,318 --> 00:09:31,362 Some of us serve a higher purpose. 169 00:09:31,445 --> 00:09:33,406 She believes in the Darksaber. 170 00:09:33,489 --> 00:09:35,825 But the Darksaber alone isn't gonna make you a great leader 171 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:37,535 just 'cause you hold a weapon. 172 00:09:37,618 --> 00:09:41,664 She has to want to be this leader and she has to have belief in herself. 173 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:45,418 FAVREAU: She was a character that had not completed her life's journey 174 00:09:45,501 --> 00:09:48,421 of where she was going to land as far as her identity. 175 00:09:48,504 --> 00:09:51,841 And that's very rich for opportunity for storytelling. 176 00:09:51,924 --> 00:09:57,847 Without that blade, she's a pretender to the throne. 177 00:09:59,307 --> 00:10:03,352 Within this season, we are really getting to experience 178 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:06,397 a full journey and a full performance 179 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:12,612 where Katee can just absolutely bring, not only her incredible talent and her all 180 00:10:12,695 --> 00:10:16,240 but this knowledge and experience that she has 181 00:10:16,324 --> 00:10:19,327 because she's played this character for over a decade. 182 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:21,287 You succeeded where many have failed. 183 00:10:22,038 --> 00:10:24,582 I've learned from the best, including you. 184 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:29,211 I wish I was good at something other than war. 185 00:10:29,295 --> 00:10:31,339 SACKHOFF: When Dave first approached me 186 00:10:31,422 --> 00:10:33,633 to play Bo-Katan in Clone Wars, 187 00:10:33,716 --> 00:10:37,803 it was really just taking who he had created 188 00:10:37,887 --> 00:10:42,600 and translating his vision vocally on to the screen. 189 00:10:42,683 --> 00:10:44,685 Go on. I can handle this. 190 00:10:44,769 --> 00:10:47,897 SACKHOFF: When the idea came up for me to play her in live-action, 191 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:51,317 I really had to stop and think about it. 192 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,196 Because I had absolutely zero idea 193 00:10:56,238 --> 00:10:58,949 what she looked like not animated. 194 00:10:59,033 --> 00:11:02,870 So I really had to learn the character all over again 195 00:11:02,953 --> 00:11:04,872 and translate that into movement. 196 00:11:04,955 --> 00:11:08,918 In the way that she used her mouth and the way that she walked and stood 197 00:11:09,001 --> 00:11:10,920 and really start it all over again. 198 00:11:11,003 --> 00:11:12,922 Which was hard. Harder than I thought. 199 00:11:13,005 --> 00:11:15,132 I was part of the royal family. 200 00:11:15,216 --> 00:11:18,344 I took the Creed and was showered with gifts. 201 00:11:18,969 --> 00:11:22,014 But the rituals were all just theater for our subjects. 202 00:11:23,057 --> 00:11:26,060 They loved watching the princess recite the Mandalorian tenets 203 00:11:26,143 --> 00:11:28,229 as her father looked on proudly. 204 00:11:29,146 --> 00:11:30,940 Such a heart-warming spectacle. 205 00:11:33,109 --> 00:11:35,736 We didn't know how season three was gonna wrap up, 206 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:39,240 but we knew that we were gonna have to go to Mandalore at some point. 207 00:11:39,323 --> 00:11:41,325 We knew that that's where things were headed. 208 00:11:41,409 --> 00:11:44,328 And we knew that we were going to begin 209 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:47,832 to deal with what had happened and what we had set up. 210 00:11:47,915 --> 00:11:49,542 And we also knew that 211 00:11:49,625 --> 00:11:56,090 because of the lore around the rules and the Creed 212 00:11:56,173 --> 00:11:58,426 among the Mandalorians with the helmet, 213 00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:01,804 that as different groups of Mandalorians came together 214 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:03,931 and as he revealed his face, 215 00:12:04,014 --> 00:12:07,893 we knew that we couldn't just hit reset and start over again. 216 00:12:07,977 --> 00:12:10,146 So the decision was made. 217 00:12:10,229 --> 00:12:12,398 What was true for the character was going to be 218 00:12:12,481 --> 00:12:16,777 that he was going to have to receive some sort of redemption 219 00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:20,906 if he were to be reaccepted into this culture that he held so dear. 220 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:23,701 The Creed teaches us of redemption. 221 00:12:24,368 --> 00:12:30,541 Redemption is no longer possible since the destruction of our homeworld. 222 00:12:32,626 --> 00:12:35,296 But what if the mines of Mandalore still exist? 223 00:12:35,379 --> 00:12:37,089 Mandalore was an interesting challenge, 224 00:12:37,173 --> 00:12:39,800 in that we haven't seen a live-action interpretation of that. 225 00:12:39,884 --> 00:12:44,388 Dave Filoni created quite a bit of that for the animated series. 226 00:12:44,472 --> 00:12:48,184 And our job was to take that and then translate to live action. 227 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:50,352 (WHOOSHES) 228 00:12:50,436 --> 00:12:53,189 George Lucas had the idea that the planet was devastated. 229 00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:56,275 So it's pretty much a virtual desert on the surface. 230 00:12:56,358 --> 00:12:59,945 And the inhabitants of Mandalore live in these artificial domes. 231 00:13:00,029 --> 00:13:02,615 Inside the domes is this very lush culture. 232 00:13:02,698 --> 00:13:05,367 And it was really tricky in terms of balancing, 233 00:13:05,451 --> 00:13:08,162 "Okay, how much destruction versus how much aesthetic taste 234 00:13:08,245 --> 00:13:09,830 "to bring in for Mandalore?" 235 00:13:09,914 --> 00:13:14,084 We looked at the nuclear Trinity test site where the explosion was so hot 236 00:13:14,168 --> 00:13:17,254 that it fused the sand into a glass like material. 237 00:13:17,338 --> 00:13:20,007 And Jon said that the idea was that the surface of Mandalore 238 00:13:20,090 --> 00:13:22,134 had undergone such a series of nuclear blasts 239 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:25,012 that the surface had fused into this shiny material 240 00:13:25,095 --> 00:13:28,015 with this green color that trinitite has. 241 00:13:28,098 --> 00:13:31,143 And we went to all sorts of lengths to explore that, 242 00:13:31,227 --> 00:13:33,145 including buying some radioactive trinitite 243 00:13:33,229 --> 00:13:34,980 that you have to wear gloves to handle. 244 00:13:35,064 --> 00:13:39,235 And eventually, we settled on a process that used a special resin 245 00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:43,322 that gave us something that really looked like the concept art and was durable. 246 00:13:43,405 --> 00:13:46,617 You gotta do something that's gonna last through production. 247 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:52,748 Jon and Dave, they love the old school way of making films. 248 00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:54,041 A lot of models. 249 00:13:55,751 --> 00:13:59,672 Andrew had given me a call and said, "You need to sculpt a cave set." 250 00:13:59,755 --> 00:14:02,967 And then, Phil Tippett was gonna collaborate 251 00:14:03,050 --> 00:14:09,181 and bring his team in and actually put all the flavor on the inside of this. 252 00:14:09,265 --> 00:14:10,641 All the scenery. 253 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:13,519 So I basically sculpted the whole form 254 00:14:13,602 --> 00:14:16,647 and then, Phil went in and made it beautiful. 255 00:14:17,314 --> 00:14:20,401 FAVREAU: Part of what our memory is of Star Wars from growing up, 256 00:14:20,484 --> 00:14:23,028 is a lot of it is Phil's aesthetic. 257 00:14:23,112 --> 00:14:28,200 Whether it was the dejarik chess board with the stop motion chess characters 258 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:29,368 or, the rancor, 259 00:14:29,451 --> 00:14:32,538 Phil Tippett was one of the original collaborators with George Lucas, 260 00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:35,583 and we thought that Phil would be great to collaborate with 261 00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:37,167 on what Mandalore would look like. 262 00:14:37,251 --> 00:14:40,546 To create something that was both tech and nightmarish. 263 00:14:40,629 --> 00:14:42,506 Because we wanted the mines of Mandalore 264 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:44,842 to look different from anything on the show. 265 00:14:44,925 --> 00:14:46,719 And, of course, Phil Tippett's aesthetic 266 00:14:46,802 --> 00:14:49,638 was something that we thought we would really benefit from. 267 00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:52,933 We actually use his models to do photogrammetry 268 00:14:53,017 --> 00:14:55,769 and help build it into the Volume and into the CGI. 269 00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:07,156 This is obviously a huge episode for Star Wars fans to get to see Mandalore 270 00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:10,659 and to get to see the ruins of a city destroyed. 271 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:11,744 Look around. 272 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:13,913 There's nothing left. 273 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:20,502 A great society is now a memory. 274 00:15:21,462 --> 00:15:24,590 MORRISON: You have people treading and retreading some of the same footsteps 275 00:15:24,673 --> 00:15:26,759 and going deeper and deeper into the underbelly. 276 00:15:26,842 --> 00:15:31,513 And how do you keep the gradience feeling different and new? 277 00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:35,142 Do we go from a more translucent green to a deeper green? 278 00:15:35,225 --> 00:15:38,646 And what does it feel like for Bo to see Mandalore for the first time 279 00:15:38,729 --> 00:15:42,191 as somebody who was raised there and saw it destroyed, 280 00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:45,069 versus The Mandalorian, who has sort of fetishized it 281 00:15:45,152 --> 00:15:46,779 and has never actually set foot? 282 00:15:46,862 --> 00:15:49,865 And how do we see that differently through each of their eyes? 283 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:53,577 "These mines date back to the age of the first Mandalore. 284 00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:57,581 "According to ancient folklore, the mines were once a Mythosaur lair. 285 00:15:58,499 --> 00:16:01,710 "Mandalore the Great is said to have tamed the mythical beast. 286 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,673 "It is from these legends that the skull signet was adopted 287 00:16:05,756 --> 00:16:08,217 "and became the symbol of our planet." 288 00:16:10,511 --> 00:16:13,597 FAVREAU: The Mythosaur originates from a graphic 289 00:16:13,681 --> 00:16:16,433 that was included in the costume of Boba Fett. 290 00:16:16,517 --> 00:16:21,021 It was a graphic that just probably seemed pleasing at the time. 291 00:16:21,105 --> 00:16:23,816 It was a skull of some sort of tusked creature. 292 00:16:23,899 --> 00:16:30,614 And over the decades, it has grown to be a particular species. 293 00:16:31,281 --> 00:16:35,786 And there's talk that the Mythosaur was ridden by the Mand'alor 294 00:16:35,869 --> 00:16:40,207 and that it was a creature that was evolved on that planet. 295 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:44,169 And as you talk about ancient Mandalorian history, it comes up. 296 00:16:44,253 --> 00:16:46,422 But it all came from just that one visual. 297 00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:53,053 And we referenced it back in season one, when he's learning how to ride the blurrg. 298 00:16:53,137 --> 00:16:56,390 Do you have a landspeeder or speeder bike that I could hire? 299 00:16:56,473 --> 00:16:57,808 You are Mandalorian! 300 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:02,855 Your ancestors rode the great Mythosaur. 301 00:17:03,939 --> 00:17:06,775 Surely you can ride this young foal. 302 00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:10,487 FAVREAU: I loved it there because it felt iconic for a western. 303 00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:13,741 The riding of the horse, the breaking of the wild mustang. 304 00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:14,992 (GROWLS) 305 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:16,827 So that was fun to play with there. 306 00:17:16,910 --> 00:17:19,538 But as we got deeper in in going to Mandalore, 307 00:17:19,621 --> 00:17:23,375 you start to say, "Well, what can we pull into this?" 308 00:17:23,459 --> 00:17:28,047 And how could we incorporate a lot of the stories that have been told 309 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:30,340 that aren't necessarily canon per se 310 00:17:30,424 --> 00:17:34,178 but still acknowledging that a lot great creative minds 311 00:17:34,261 --> 00:17:37,306 have been contributing to Star Wars over the years? 312 00:17:37,389 --> 00:17:41,852 ARMORER: The songs of eons past foretold of the Mythosaur rising up 313 00:17:41,935 --> 00:17:44,396 to herald a new age of Mandalore. 314 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,610 Sadly, it only exists in legends. 315 00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:52,529 FAVREAU: If you set something up in a movie in your first reel 316 00:17:52,613 --> 00:17:54,239 and you pay it off on the last reel, 317 00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:57,409 that is really great feeling of satisfaction 318 00:17:57,493 --> 00:18:02,164 that you have this delayed gratification of something paying off. 319 00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:06,085 Well, with television, you can do that over the course of many years. 320 00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:07,920 And I find that extremely satisfying. 321 00:18:08,587 --> 00:18:12,508 FILONI: The Mythosaur moment for her is this moment of faith 322 00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:16,220 where she sees something that should be impossible. 323 00:18:16,303 --> 00:18:18,555 And she is asked to believe in it. 324 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:22,643 If the creature gets up out of the water and reveals itself, 325 00:18:22,726 --> 00:18:24,394 it's just way too obvious. 326 00:18:24,478 --> 00:18:27,564 It has to be something isolated. Something that only she sees. 327 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:29,650 Something that she has to make a choice. 328 00:18:29,733 --> 00:18:30,943 Do you trust your eyes? 329 00:18:31,026 --> 00:18:33,987 "Did I really see that? How is that even possible?" 330 00:18:34,071 --> 00:18:35,781 Did you see anything alive? 331 00:18:35,864 --> 00:18:37,991 THE MANDALORIAN: Alive? Like what? 332 00:18:39,743 --> 00:18:41,036 Nothing. 333 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,540 We're a communal species. We connect with one another. 334 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,917 We're influenced by the people we spend time with. 335 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,962 And especially people that we face challenges with and work with. 336 00:18:50,045 --> 00:18:56,760 And so, what seems to be naive to her maybe there's something that... 337 00:18:56,844 --> 00:18:59,096 It's not just a matter of her filling him in 338 00:18:59,179 --> 00:19:01,515 on how things really are on Mandalore, 339 00:19:01,598 --> 00:19:06,103 but maybe his fresh perspective is going to inform how she sees things. 340 00:19:06,770 --> 00:19:10,232 FILONI: Why are all of these things that shouldn't be possible possible? 341 00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:15,529 Why does this Mandalorian, Din Djarin, believe in all this hokey things 342 00:19:15,612 --> 00:19:18,699 that only Mandalorian children were supposed to believe in? 343 00:19:18,782 --> 00:19:22,327 But as she watches him have this faith and believe in it, 344 00:19:23,203 --> 00:19:25,122 the world around him starts to change. 345 00:19:25,205 --> 00:19:26,999 And it starts to change for the better. 346 00:19:27,082 --> 00:19:30,919 So she starts to change, 'cause she thinks maybe this is the way. 347 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:34,089 ARMORER: When you choose to walk the Way of the Mand'alor, 348 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,300 you will see many things. 349 00:19:40,345 --> 00:19:41,847 BO-KATAN: But it was real. 350 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:44,349 This is the Way. 351 00:19:53,609 --> 00:19:56,820 CHIANG: This season, we were challenged with creating seven distinct environments. 352 00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:59,615 Two of them were environments we've already seen. 353 00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:03,410 One of the most fascinating ones for me was actually revisiting Coruscant. 354 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,249 OFFICER G68: A trillion permanent residents. 355 00:20:10,292 --> 00:20:11,293 DR. PERSHING: Amazing. 356 00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:14,546 All these people working together to make something better. 357 00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:17,424 It makes me feel rather insignificant. 358 00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,219 CHUNG: So, in my episode, once we transitioned to Coruscant, 359 00:20:20,302 --> 00:20:23,096 we start to the episode off in the opera house. 360 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:26,016 It's the same opera house that you see in Revenge of the Sith. 361 00:20:26,099 --> 00:20:27,100 So I went back 362 00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:30,687 and looked at how that space was filmed in that original movie 363 00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,940 and also the visual language in that movie. 364 00:20:33,023 --> 00:20:36,068 And tried to recreate it a little bit here. 365 00:20:36,151 --> 00:20:38,987 In Revenge of the Sith the character is going up the steps. 366 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:40,948 Anakin runs up the stairs. 367 00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:43,325 And in here, Pershing goes down the stairs. 368 00:20:43,408 --> 00:20:45,953 So we tried to put the camera in a similar spot 369 00:20:46,036 --> 00:20:47,829 to give audiences a nod that, 370 00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:50,916 "Hey, we're revisiting some places that you may have seen in the past." 371 00:20:50,999 --> 00:20:52,209 -I'm very lucky. -(WOMAN SIGHS) 372 00:20:52,292 --> 00:20:54,044 And we're lucky to have you, Doctor Pershing. 373 00:20:54,127 --> 00:20:56,880 How are you finding the city? Comfortable, I hope? 374 00:20:56,964 --> 00:21:00,592 Yes. Though anything would be comfortable compared to the Outer Rim. 375 00:21:00,676 --> 00:21:03,637 Coruscant is one of those environments or planets that is so rich 376 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,222 and has so much history. 377 00:21:05,305 --> 00:21:08,183 When I was working with George Lucas, designing it in 1995, 378 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:10,352 we actually designed a majority of the planet. 379 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:13,313 And in the prequel films you only see a small portion of that. 380 00:21:13,397 --> 00:21:16,858 So there's a lot of layers of design that have always been figured out 381 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,319 and we never really had an opportunity to execute them. 382 00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:21,571 One of the really fun ones for me was that 383 00:21:21,655 --> 00:21:25,367 Coruscant has this very unique form language for these speeders. 384 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:26,660 Air taxis. 385 00:21:26,743 --> 00:21:29,955 And we had seen some of them already back in the prequels. 386 00:21:30,038 --> 00:21:33,041 I thought, "Wouldn't it be terrific to tie the design continuity 387 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:34,376 "to bring those designs back?" 388 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:35,919 And we literally did that. 389 00:21:36,003 --> 00:21:38,171 It's almost exactly the same, same color palette. 390 00:21:38,255 --> 00:21:42,134 And we just made it into our own bespoke version for our show. 391 00:21:44,052 --> 00:21:47,097 DROID: Ah. Look at that, here we are. Amnesty Housing. 392 00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:50,350 Please watch your step as you exit the vehicle. 393 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:57,316 When I came on to this job, Jon and Dave both told me 394 00:21:57,399 --> 00:22:00,319 that I would do well if I could figure out a genre 395 00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:02,988 that I'd like to put this episode into. 396 00:22:03,071 --> 00:22:06,658 So, as I was reading the script, my mind instantly went to Hitchcock. 397 00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:08,702 DR. PERSHING: You sure we're alone? 398 00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:11,163 OFFICER G68: Yep. 399 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:13,665 Ships are all inoperable. 400 00:22:14,958 --> 00:22:16,126 No need to guard 'em. 401 00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:18,712 CHUNG: The entire sequence that we filmed in the train, 402 00:22:18,795 --> 00:22:22,215 we tried to film in a Hitchcock sort of mode. 403 00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:25,010 We incorporated a lot of looks 404 00:22:25,093 --> 00:22:29,431 and the types of suspense that he uses in the visual language. 405 00:22:29,514 --> 00:22:32,768 A lot of this show happens with everyone wearing helmets. 406 00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:36,521 But with Omid and Katy, they had to kind of carry this episode 407 00:22:36,605 --> 00:22:38,899 through their performance, through their looks, 408 00:22:38,982 --> 00:22:42,819 through the way in which they subtly react to different things. 409 00:22:42,903 --> 00:22:43,945 They were phenomenal. 410 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:45,530 (WHISPERING) Keep it together, Doc. 411 00:22:45,614 --> 00:22:48,075 (PANTING) You're better at this than I am. 412 00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:50,243 Oh, you'll get the hang of it. 413 00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:56,166 WEATHERS: We are not making typical TV. 414 00:22:56,249 --> 00:22:59,294 I've been involved throughout my career with doing television, man. 415 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,547 This is another creature. It is so much bigger than. 416 00:23:02,631 --> 00:23:06,301 It is so much broader than. So much more involved. 417 00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:08,762 I wasn't steeped in Star Wars lore. 418 00:23:09,638 --> 00:23:12,307 But the material was so damn good. 419 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,726 Four years later and we're still rocking and rolling. 420 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,687 It is your favorite director. 421 00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:18,855 -WOMAN 1: Yeah! -MAN: Yeah! 422 00:23:18,939 --> 00:23:20,399 -WOMAN 2: Yay, Carl! -(WEATHERS LAUGHS) 423 00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,317 You can't say it, I'm saying it for you. 424 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:23,527 -(LAUGHTER) -Um... 425 00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:27,697 Welcome back, uh, to 304. 426 00:23:27,781 --> 00:23:30,951 Carl had a very big task this season. 427 00:23:31,034 --> 00:23:34,287 With an entire episode with a ton of moving parts. 428 00:23:34,371 --> 00:23:37,707 I mean, we have kids being taken by big birds 429 00:23:37,791 --> 00:23:42,838 and tons of Mandalorians and big huge fight scenes. 430 00:23:42,921 --> 00:23:44,339 And rock climbing. 431 00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:48,552 And, you know, his episode legitimately had everything in it. 432 00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:52,347 WEATHERS: It's fascinating to me that the Mandalorian culture 433 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:56,184 is something that we allude to throughout every episode basically. 434 00:23:56,268 --> 00:24:00,188 And in the episode that I was fortunate enough to direct, 435 00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:02,399 we open with this great sequence of training. 436 00:24:02,482 --> 00:24:06,653 And so, we get a chance to see how you're introduced into that culture 437 00:24:06,736 --> 00:24:09,281 with the various skill sets that are necessary. 438 00:24:09,364 --> 00:24:12,284 And the baby plays a big part in that opening. 439 00:24:12,367 --> 00:24:13,368 JUDGE: Ready. 440 00:24:14,494 --> 00:24:15,745 Begin! 441 00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:16,872 Whoa! 442 00:24:22,377 --> 00:24:24,004 JUDGE: Three points. Winner! 443 00:24:24,671 --> 00:24:29,259 FILONI: What puts a measure on your story is how creative can you be. 444 00:24:29,342 --> 00:24:33,847 We try to give the audience something that they've never seen before. 445 00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:36,016 Like in season one, 446 00:24:36,099 --> 00:24:37,726 Jon wants to make a Baby Yoda. 447 00:24:37,809 --> 00:24:41,855 I'm like, "What? Why? Why would we do this? 448 00:24:41,938 --> 00:24:43,857 "That sounds like not a good idea." 449 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:47,319 But, you put that initial fear aside and you say, 450 00:24:47,402 --> 00:24:49,237 "Okay, well, let's really examine this." 451 00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:50,322 And I was like, 452 00:24:50,405 --> 00:24:52,949 "Jon, if you're gonna do this, (LAUGHS) I'm gonna be there with you. 453 00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:56,161 "'Cause I know Yoda's one of George's favorite characters 454 00:24:56,244 --> 00:24:57,829 "and we cannot mess this up." 455 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:01,625 But I also knew Jon a bit as a filmmaker. 456 00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:03,710 And I know he's got a great heart 457 00:25:03,793 --> 00:25:08,048 and a great sensibility for telling stories that are meaningful to people. 458 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:12,928 And that maybe this little child could turn out to be something special. 459 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:15,305 But we didn't think it was gonna be a puppet the whole time. 460 00:25:15,388 --> 00:25:16,556 We thought it'd be CG. 461 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,601 Jon's coming off of making Lion King and Jungle Book, 462 00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:23,813 where the CG is practically unparalleled with its believability. 463 00:25:23,897 --> 00:25:28,985 And here it is, we got Werner Herzog telling us, "No. Believe in the puppet." 464 00:25:29,069 --> 00:25:31,655 And well, the world did. 465 00:25:32,572 --> 00:25:34,616 I would like to see the baby. 466 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:36,826 (SMACKS LIPS) Uh... 467 00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:38,411 It is asleep. 468 00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:40,413 We all will be quiet. 469 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:45,460 HOWARD: The Grogu puppet improves every single year. 470 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:51,132 And the Legacy performers are always tinkering and finding ways 471 00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:55,637 to honestly allow the puppet to do as much practically as possible. 472 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,891 FAVREAU: Don't underestimate how significant 473 00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:02,269 his interpretation of the moment is. 474 00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:03,353 MIKE MANZEL: Okay. 475 00:26:03,436 --> 00:26:06,064 FAVREAU: 'Cause he's everybody's touchstone. 476 00:26:06,147 --> 00:26:09,276 The best direction we get is when they treat the puppet like it's an actor. 477 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,028 They tell it what to do and we're all standing around to hear it. 478 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:14,406 And we're reacting to what the director wants. 479 00:26:14,489 --> 00:26:15,615 (MORRISON SPEAKING ON PA) 480 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,914 There's an unspoken chemistry to this where we... 481 00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,792 Just getting to know him and watching this character develop, 482 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:29,254 he's kind of got this personality of his own that we all understand. 483 00:26:29,337 --> 00:26:31,548 -(EXCLAIMING) -THE MANDALORIAN: No, Grogu. 484 00:26:31,631 --> 00:26:35,260 (LAUGHTER) 485 00:26:36,553 --> 00:26:37,596 MAN: And, cut. 486 00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,849 WEATHERS: How Jon integrates Grogu into these stories 487 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:47,063 and tells the story at times from Grogu's point of view is so beautiful. 488 00:26:47,147 --> 00:26:49,357 It's just beautiful. It's the only word for it. 489 00:26:50,233 --> 00:26:51,818 ARMORER: This is the Forge. 490 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:55,655 The Forge can reveal weaknesses. 491 00:26:55,739 --> 00:26:58,366 (THUDDING) 492 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:08,376 (CRACKLING) 493 00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:13,173 FAVREAU: We knew we had to tell more stories 494 00:27:13,256 --> 00:27:17,135 'cause we've told flashbacks about what happened to Grogu. 495 00:27:17,218 --> 00:27:20,639 And how Grogu escaped the Jedi Temple. 496 00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:24,559 We've shown little glimpses and clips of his memory. 497 00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:26,895 Most recently in The Book of Boba Fett. 498 00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:32,567 And so, we wanted to continue to tell that story in small chapters. 499 00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:35,111 We had to figure out, "What's the next chapter? 500 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:37,280 "What's the likely thing that would've happened?" 501 00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:39,741 JEDI: Get the youngling to Kelleran! Go! 502 00:27:39,824 --> 00:27:44,329 FILONI: What was clear was we needed Grogu to have a type of savior companion 503 00:27:44,412 --> 00:27:46,665 that preceded Mando and that it would be a Jedi. 504 00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:49,834 And then it becomes important to say, "Well, who is that?" 505 00:27:49,918 --> 00:27:51,336 'Cause that'll be a big deal. 506 00:27:52,003 --> 00:27:55,090 And for me, it's always nice when it's somebody, 507 00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:58,259 "in the family" here at Lucasfilm. 508 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:04,349 Someone that's been out there representing Star Wars, 509 00:28:04,432 --> 00:28:07,143 interacting with fans, carrying the banner. 510 00:28:07,227 --> 00:28:12,607 And Ahmed Best has been such an important part of our Star Wars history. 511 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,402 Don't worry, kid. Everything's gonna be okay. 512 00:28:16,403 --> 00:28:19,698 I come in and see it's the baby, do you want this to come down or stay up? 513 00:28:19,781 --> 00:28:22,409 WEATHERS: It'll never be up because then you're not on guard anymore. 514 00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:23,535 -Right. -WEATHERS: Right? 515 00:28:23,618 --> 00:28:26,329 It doesn't come back up until you pick up the second one. 516 00:28:26,413 --> 00:28:28,998 -Now you're gonna take care of business. -Got it. 517 00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:30,959 FAVREAU: He grew up as part of it. 518 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:32,877 Through all different eras of it. 519 00:28:32,961 --> 00:28:36,464 HOWARD: Jon! We haven't seen each other since I was 16-years-old on the prequels. 520 00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:39,718 'Cause I was hanging around during the prequels. 521 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:42,804 FAVREAU: And he also has martial arts training. 522 00:28:45,765 --> 00:28:49,769 He introduced the character of Kelleran Beq, a Jedi, into Star Wars. 523 00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:52,814 And we thought that this could present a really cool opportunity 524 00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:56,025 to incorporate him into The Mandalorian. 525 00:28:56,109 --> 00:28:57,861 -It hasn't really hit me yet. -Yeah. 526 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:01,114 I never thought I'd be back, to be honest. 527 00:29:01,197 --> 00:29:04,784 Especially like this. So, it's crazy. 528 00:29:04,868 --> 00:29:07,787 Don't worry. We're gonna meet up with some friends of mine. 529 00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:09,748 But hold on, it's gonna be a bumpy landing. 530 00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:12,333 (HAMMERING) 531 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:22,761 FAVREAU: When I wrote the character of The Armorer 532 00:29:22,844 --> 00:29:25,221 in the very first episode of The Mandalorian, 533 00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:28,975 we were trying to fill in what that Mandalorian lore was. 534 00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:30,602 And we made the decision early on 535 00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:34,647 that this character would be seen as the shamanistic figure. 536 00:29:34,731 --> 00:29:37,108 ARMORER: This was gathered in the Great Purge. 537 00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:40,069 It is good it is back with the tribe. 538 00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:44,032 This audition came along that my agent said was 539 00:29:44,157 --> 00:29:47,035 probably something to do with Star Wars. 540 00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:51,206 I knew that this character was the leader of a group of people in hiding. 541 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:54,375 And it said that she was Zen-like. And that's what I had to go on. 542 00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:57,962 I do remember that in the audition scene 543 00:29:58,046 --> 00:30:01,257 I had to say the line, "This is the Way." 544 00:30:01,341 --> 00:30:03,176 And, of course, I had no idea. 545 00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:04,552 ARMORER: This is the Way. 546 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:05,970 MANDALORIANS: This is the Way. 547 00:30:06,054 --> 00:30:08,598 SWALLOW: Jon said that especially for her, 548 00:30:08,681 --> 00:30:13,144 they were really going back to a lot of Kurosawa films and The Last Samurai. 549 00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:18,191 And just that majesty and that stillness, that regalness. 550 00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:19,984 And that helped so much. 551 00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:22,821 FAVREAU: Emily has done a really wonderful job 552 00:30:22,904 --> 00:30:25,532 in helping to breathe life into this character 553 00:30:25,615 --> 00:30:27,450 and to make the character human. 554 00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:30,078 On top of the mask and on top of the archetype. 555 00:30:30,161 --> 00:30:36,709 Our people have strayed from the Way and it is not enough for a few to walk it. 556 00:30:38,586 --> 00:30:40,129 We must walk it together. 557 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:47,470 RAMSEY: There's a lot of backstory 558 00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:51,724 and there's a lot of moving parts to the saga that seem like 559 00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:55,687 they've kind of really started to come to fruition with this season. 560 00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:58,356 THE MANDALORIAN: Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. 561 00:30:58,439 --> 00:31:01,526 And those that do fought against him when you rescued me 562 00:31:01,609 --> 00:31:04,821 from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. 563 00:31:04,904 --> 00:31:06,614 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 564 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,992 Since then, he's had a change of heart 565 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:13,913 and has risked his life to save mine as well as the foundling in my charge. 566 00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:19,419 My episode centers around Greef Karga and Nevarro. 567 00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:21,379 I won't abandon my city. 568 00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:23,506 We have to get the public to safety. 569 00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:26,968 WEATHERS: Greef Karga at this point is a bureaucrat really. 570 00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:29,470 But he is still a guy who can handle himself. 571 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,974 And who will step up when necessary to do some handling. 572 00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:36,477 Don't mistake my hospitality for weakness. 573 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:40,982 Is that what you call gunning down my helmsman in cold blood? 574 00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:43,484 When he let down his guard on your planet. 575 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:44,819 He shot first. 576 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:48,323 RAMSEY: There's a few different genres that I feel this episode touches on. 577 00:31:48,406 --> 00:31:50,658 Our pirates led by Gorian Shard 578 00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:54,329 are definitely beholden to classic buccaneers. 579 00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,456 Right down to wardrobe details. 580 00:31:56,539 --> 00:31:58,249 So we had a lot of fun with that. 581 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:01,502 But once the action really gets going and the siege is under way, 582 00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:05,548 the Mandalorians come to the aid of the people of Nevarro. 583 00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:09,427 And it turns into kind of a pitched battle that feels a little bit like 584 00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:11,471 something out of Saving Private Ryan. 585 00:32:11,554 --> 00:32:17,185 It really does become like a full on battle sequence. 586 00:32:21,314 --> 00:32:24,776 There's explosions, there's kind of handheld cameras, 587 00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:27,904 there's all the signatures of battlefield action. 588 00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:29,322 (EXPLOSIONS) 589 00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:36,746 MAN 1: You fall in love with a storyboard, 590 00:32:36,829 --> 00:32:38,456 and we're never gonna get that. Look at that. 591 00:32:38,539 --> 00:32:39,666 MAN 2: Yeah. 592 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:42,085 -MAN 1: Three people midair at once. -MAN 3: Wow. 593 00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:44,295 MAN 1: With the fireball. 594 00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:47,757 FAVREAU: I'll pay you the highest compliment, it looks like CGI. 595 00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:49,884 (LAUGHTER) 596 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,054 This season's been fun just playing around with different things 597 00:32:53,137 --> 00:32:57,058 that we can do with jetpacks and these weapons that we've been given 598 00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:58,726 and these Star Wars rules. 599 00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:02,230 We've definitely got to play with a lot more different fun ideas. 600 00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:04,440 (WHOOSHING) 601 00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:06,567 (GROANS) 602 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,153 (SHRIEKS, GROANS) 603 00:33:09,237 --> 00:33:10,405 (CHEERS) 604 00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:19,622 DASHNAW: This season there's a lot more Mandalorians. 605 00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:24,877 We've had some times where we have 30 plus stunt people working at one time. 606 00:33:24,961 --> 00:33:26,796 And just having to watch everything 607 00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:31,259 and make sure everyone's performing the same way and with the same intensity, 608 00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:32,969 that's probably the hardest thing. 609 00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:36,264 Just because of the number and just the scale of what we're doing. 610 00:33:36,347 --> 00:33:37,432 (VOCALIZES FIRING) 611 00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:40,059 You'll get a little support fire as he's coming. 612 00:33:40,143 --> 00:33:44,564 And you can come up, boom, boom, and Joe will pass you for the thing. 613 00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:47,734 Pop, pop. But when she doesn't shoot, watch. Boom, boom, boom. 614 00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:50,486 You can come over here and just come after her like this. Boom. 615 00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:51,738 You'll come up into this. 616 00:33:51,821 --> 00:33:54,240 As long you're in the front, lead this charge. 617 00:33:54,323 --> 00:33:56,909 HOWARD: Weapons are intrinsic to the Mandalorian culture. 618 00:33:56,993 --> 00:34:00,038 So I think that's something really fun to get to explore. 619 00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:02,040 JOSH ROTH: One of the challenges for us this season 620 00:34:02,123 --> 00:34:04,042 was the amount of Mandalorian weapons. 621 00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,209 The quantity of it. 622 00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,628 We still like to do the same methods as season one. 623 00:34:07,712 --> 00:34:10,048 So what we normally do is start with the artwork. 624 00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:13,634 We show the illustrations to Jon and Dave and Rick and Doug. 625 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:16,387 Get approval on everything. And then once we start building. 626 00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:21,142 These are the notes we basically did for Mando's new blaster that he's getting. 627 00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:24,020 So we extended the barrel like you wanted. 628 00:34:24,103 --> 00:34:26,898 Made it longer, inch and a half longer. Changed the grip 629 00:34:26,981 --> 00:34:29,776 to go back to the original grip where the top's in center. 630 00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:34,072 But still makes it feel Empire. A cool gun for Mando. 631 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:35,823 Mando's blaster is iconic. 632 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:38,242 I love that gun. We've had it for three seasons. 633 00:34:38,326 --> 00:34:41,162 And it's a big change to go to a new blaster for Mando. 634 00:34:41,245 --> 00:34:43,122 But I think it works really well. 635 00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:53,132 Star Wars has always been the blending of technology 636 00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:58,971 with the right amount of just pure hand built craftsmanship. 637 00:34:59,055 --> 00:35:02,558 Which I think is what's really exciting about the world. 638 00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:09,482 And so, I get geeked out as much by the latest prop that I have to work with. 639 00:35:09,565 --> 00:35:13,277 (LAUGHS) Or droid that's being built. 640 00:35:13,361 --> 00:35:17,949 Or a costume and how it flows. And how it feels lived in 641 00:35:18,032 --> 00:35:20,034 as anything we're doing on the Volume. 642 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:22,203 FAVREAU: Could you all put your helmets on for us? 643 00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:25,414 SHAWNA TRPCIC: Creating 60 brand new Mandalorians 644 00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:28,543 from the three different tribes was amazing. 645 00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:30,753 We got to do a survivor look. 646 00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:34,215 We got to do the original covert look. 647 00:35:34,298 --> 00:35:38,010 And then we got to explore the Bo-Katan group. 648 00:35:38,094 --> 00:35:41,097 Former, I guess, Death Watch or former Nite Owls. 649 00:35:41,180 --> 00:35:42,306 We called them the Marines. 650 00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:44,559 It was very much influenced by the animation. 651 00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:47,562 FILONI: I designed this helmet on a Southwest flight one day. 652 00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:49,605 -MAN: Shut up. Really? -It was on a napkin and I... 653 00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:54,652 I wanted Bo-Katan to have a specific style cutout. 654 00:35:54,735 --> 00:35:56,529 And so, it's based on a barn owl. 655 00:35:57,488 --> 00:35:58,781 And it's like the beak 656 00:35:58,865 --> 00:36:00,741 -and the eyes of the barn owl. -MAN: Oh, cool. 657 00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:03,494 TRPCIC: It was fun to create each individual art. 658 00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,746 With them all wearing basically the same armor 659 00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:08,457 but being able to distinguish one from another. 660 00:36:08,541 --> 00:36:09,876 Basically what we did was, 661 00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:13,629 we sort of created an assembly line in the creation of the armor itself. 662 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:18,342 But then, we found unique ways of, especially with the survivors, 663 00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:21,429 replacing bits of armor with like, 664 00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:24,724 what would you find on a planet that had been through an apocalypse? 665 00:36:24,807 --> 00:36:27,018 Wood and leathers and furs, 666 00:36:27,101 --> 00:36:29,353 anything you could put together to protect yourself. 667 00:36:29,437 --> 00:36:33,024 But because you're from a religion of the Mandalorians, 668 00:36:33,107 --> 00:36:35,902 you would find a way to sculpt that into traditional shapes. 669 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:37,987 -B2 battle droid. -MAN: Oh, that's cool. 670 00:36:38,070 --> 00:36:42,533 Each individual Mandalorian tells a story. And that's always what I tell my artists. 671 00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:45,494 I wanna know the story behind the choices that we're making 672 00:36:45,578 --> 00:36:48,080 for every crack, every stitch. 673 00:36:48,164 --> 00:36:50,458 BRENDAN WAYNE: Mary, my costumer, gets very frustrated with me 674 00:36:50,541 --> 00:36:54,045 because I like to talk about game time preparations. 675 00:36:54,128 --> 00:36:57,048 I don't let her put my gauntlets on or my gloves. 676 00:36:57,131 --> 00:36:58,299 That's something I do. 677 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:01,385 It's like tying up my shoes before a basketball game. 678 00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:02,637 That's part of my process. 679 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:03,888 ARMORER: This is the Way. 680 00:37:03,971 --> 00:37:05,264 THE MANDALORIAN: This is the Way. 681 00:37:05,348 --> 00:37:07,600 SWALLOW: The first few times I wore the armor, 682 00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:10,853 I had to rely so much on what I knew it looked like 683 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:14,273 because it felt incredibly awkward. 684 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,485 And, um, it's funny now, 685 00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:21,822 I meet so many of the members of the 501st 686 00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:25,618 or the Mando Mercs, or the Rebel Legion, who do the cosplay all the time. 687 00:37:25,701 --> 00:37:29,288 They all just nod their heads and they're like, "Yup. Yup. Yup." 688 00:37:29,372 --> 00:37:31,874 ARMORER: We each begin as raw ore. 689 00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:36,462 We refine ourselves through trials and adversity. 690 00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:41,384 Suit acting is very different than acting with a face, if you will. 691 00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:46,055 You really have to be conscious of what a head movement says. 692 00:37:46,138 --> 00:37:51,727 Every tilt, every little thing was so loud on camera. 693 00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:56,107 And so, we had to be incredibly specific about what we were doing. 694 00:37:56,190 --> 00:38:00,361 It was such a wonderful time of trial and error. 695 00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:06,200 ARMORER: Bo-Katan Kryze is going off to bring other Mandalorians in exile to us 696 00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:08,703 so that we may join together once again. 697 00:38:12,081 --> 00:38:18,087 This is my fourth season working with The Mandalorian family. 698 00:38:18,170 --> 00:38:22,925 For a lot of the episode, it's the introduction of a new planet. 699 00:38:23,009 --> 00:38:29,140 It's the introduction of a new cast of characters we've never seen before. 700 00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:32,143 You will always be welcome in our domed paradise. 701 00:38:32,226 --> 00:38:33,936 HOWARD: I read the script and then I was like, 702 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,355 "Oh, okay, so casting, what are you thinking?" 703 00:38:36,439 --> 00:38:43,112 And Jon's all, "Oh, yeah, we already have three key new cast members. 704 00:38:43,195 --> 00:38:46,073 "Jack Black, Lizzo and Christopher Lloyd." 705 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:49,535 I was like, "(LAUGHS) Right. Okay!" 706 00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:55,124 Bombardier. 707 00:38:55,207 --> 00:38:58,127 Jon Favreau claims that he wrote this role for me. 708 00:38:59,545 --> 00:39:00,546 TRPCIC: I think he did. 709 00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,715 BLACK: I love the name Bombardier. 710 00:39:02,798 --> 00:39:04,759 I like to think that I'm a badass. 711 00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:07,845 That I actually could hold my own in battle. 712 00:39:07,928 --> 00:39:09,889 There's no talk of that. 713 00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:14,352 In the script it just says that I used to be... 714 00:39:14,435 --> 00:39:17,396 -TRPCIC: Yeah, it fits. -BLACK: ...a facilities planning officer. 715 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,814 (LAUGHTER) 716 00:39:18,898 --> 00:39:20,941 -Is Bombardier a dancer? -TRPCIC: I think so. 717 00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:26,197 BLACK: Dude, his name is Bombardier. It's got bomb in the name. 718 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,368 (LAUGHS) How can he just be a facilities planner? 719 00:39:30,451 --> 00:39:33,788 He's got a blaster. You just don't see it. 720 00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:37,041 HOWARD: What's so fun is that Lizzo and Jack 721 00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:41,796 have been very public about their support for Star Wars 722 00:39:41,879 --> 00:39:44,757 and this show and the characters. 723 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,051 Oh, my (SHRIEKS) God! 724 00:39:47,134 --> 00:39:48,677 HOWARD: Amazing, right? 725 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:51,639 -Yes, I got my Grogu hat on. -(LAUGHTER) 726 00:39:51,722 --> 00:39:53,015 I'm a huge fan. 727 00:39:53,099 --> 00:39:54,517 (LAUGHTER) 728 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,854 Their enthusiasm was absolutely infectious. 729 00:39:58,938 --> 00:40:02,525 Who wouldn't wanna party with Bombardier? (LAUGHS) 730 00:40:02,608 --> 00:40:04,860 Everyone wants to party with Bombardier. 731 00:40:04,944 --> 00:40:07,988 I'm gonna have to do a quick research study on all dancing 732 00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:12,493 that's ever taken place in any Star Wars film or side series. 733 00:40:13,494 --> 00:40:16,539 'Cause I definitely feel like I need to have the moves. 734 00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:17,915 (FAVREAU SPEAKING) 735 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,009 (LAUGHTER) 736 00:40:34,723 --> 00:40:38,727 (VOCALIZING MANDALORIAN THEME SONG) 737 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:51,407 (LAUGHTER) 738 00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:54,869 Just a little taste for the behind the scenes! 739 00:40:56,078 --> 00:41:01,750 My job working with Jack and Lizzo was to just not break. 740 00:41:02,334 --> 00:41:05,463 Because no take is the same. 741 00:41:05,546 --> 00:41:09,592 (LAUGHS) And my goal was just to get out of the way. 742 00:41:09,675 --> 00:41:11,886 Who wants to take on the champion? 743 00:41:11,969 --> 00:41:16,891 HOWARD: They infused so much energy and enthusiasm 744 00:41:16,974 --> 00:41:20,769 and passion into every single moment. 745 00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:27,109 The moons of Paraqaat. 746 00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:28,694 The moons of Paraqaat, 747 00:41:29,695 --> 00:41:31,780 -that's a hit. -(LAUGHS) 748 00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:36,285 It reminds us yet again that, "Oh, my gosh, we're making Star Wars. 749 00:41:36,368 --> 00:41:37,995 "Isn't that bananas?" (LAUGHS) 750 00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:40,331 Okay, this is... I... This is... 751 00:41:40,414 --> 00:41:43,834 If you guys wanna be on time today, get this baby out of my hands. 752 00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:49,173 -(GRUNTS) -(CHIMING) 753 00:41:49,256 --> 00:41:50,257 (TRILLING) 754 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:53,177 (ALL CHEERING) 755 00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:56,263 A Quadro-blast! I've never seen such a streak! 756 00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:57,348 (SIGHS) 757 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:09,818 On Plazir, it's kind of this idealized city of the future. 758 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:14,490 And as part of their working force, they sort of lean into robots. 759 00:42:14,573 --> 00:42:19,578 The citizens voted against any interruption in droid services. 760 00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:22,414 They can't live without it. 761 00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:24,458 We thought, "On Plazir, wouldn't it be terrific 762 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:27,419 "to have a cantina but make it a droid bar?" 763 00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:28,754 BARTENDER DROID: Can I help you? 764 00:42:29,630 --> 00:42:31,715 That depends. Is this The Resistor? 765 00:42:33,133 --> 00:42:34,218 BARTENDER DROID: This is. 766 00:42:34,301 --> 00:42:36,470 Literally, this became one of the most fun sets for me 767 00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:38,472 because when you look around the room, 768 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:40,474 you're seeing droids from all of our films, 769 00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:41,767 from all the different eras. 770 00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:44,019 All sort of in this one environment. 771 00:42:44,103 --> 00:42:48,232 HOWARD: It's like the greatest hits of all the droids in Star Wars. 772 00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:50,609 And that was just an enormous amount of fun. 773 00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:53,195 And also really complicated. 774 00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:55,823 He looks a little bit like he's giving the middle finger. 775 00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:58,659 WOMAN: Okay, tan droid, put your left arm down, please? 776 00:42:58,742 --> 00:43:03,330 HOWARD: One of the things that's important to depict in terms of droids 777 00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:07,042 is having the majority of them be practical droids. 778 00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:12,381 Like actually being there and being performed and operated by human beings. 779 00:43:12,464 --> 00:43:14,883 HENSLEY: I think it was the most droids in one scene, 780 00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:17,386 -I could be wrong, in a Star Wars thing. -MANZEL: Yeah. 781 00:43:17,469 --> 00:43:19,513 HENSLEY: Including like, inside the sandcrawler. 782 00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:21,140 -It was so cool. -Yeah, 20 puppeteers. 783 00:43:21,223 --> 00:43:22,933 -Yeah, 20... -Scrambling around doing... 784 00:43:23,017 --> 00:43:25,185 -Mostly doing two puppets at one time. -Yeah. 785 00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,730 Every person had at least two puppets, maybe three. 786 00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:30,316 You start here with these puppets and as the camera went by 787 00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:32,318 you jump over to two other puppets down the line. 788 00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:34,069 -HENSLEY: It was really fun. -MANZEL: Yeah. 789 00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:36,155 -HOWARD: Looks so good. -WOMAN: Team Legacy, y'all. 790 00:43:36,238 --> 00:43:37,448 (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) 791 00:43:37,531 --> 00:43:38,824 MAN: Thank you so much. 792 00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:44,663 SACKHOFF: Bryce's episode is a lot more lighthearted 793 00:43:44,747 --> 00:43:48,250 than some of the other episodes this season. 794 00:43:48,334 --> 00:43:51,211 But she also has the task of this 795 00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:53,881 tremendous heaviness at the very end of it. 796 00:43:53,964 --> 00:43:58,552 Which is where Bo-Katan goes to get her people back. 797 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,763 And try to convince them to follow her again. 798 00:44:00,846 --> 00:44:02,848 BO-KATAN: I've come to reclaim my fleet. 799 00:44:04,141 --> 00:44:06,852 AXE WOVES: It's no longer your fleet, is it? 800 00:44:07,394 --> 00:44:08,854 Then I challenge you, 801 00:44:10,356 --> 00:44:11,899 one warrior to another. 802 00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:15,402 SACKHOFF: And it's this epic fight between Bo-Katan 803 00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:18,155 and Axe Woves, played by Simon. 804 00:44:18,238 --> 00:44:19,406 Do you yield? 805 00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:21,033 -(SHOUTING) -(WHOOSHING) 806 00:44:21,116 --> 00:44:23,035 In the first season that he was in, 807 00:44:23,118 --> 00:44:28,707 in my episode, his character Axe Woves was originally written to die. 808 00:44:28,791 --> 00:44:32,336 And I've gotta say this, like, Simon is so wonderful. 809 00:44:32,419 --> 00:44:36,048 Part of the reason why we want to keep him around is because he's so great. 810 00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:38,175 I had no idea I'd be back. 811 00:44:38,258 --> 00:44:42,971 And not only am I back but I've come back to this arc. 812 00:44:43,055 --> 00:44:44,431 That just knocks my socks off. 813 00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:47,017 You'll never be the true leader of our people. 814 00:44:48,227 --> 00:44:50,354 You won't even take the Darksaber from him. 815 00:44:52,147 --> 00:44:53,941 He's the one you should be challenging. 816 00:44:54,733 --> 00:44:57,528 Enough Mandalorian blood has been spilled by our own hands. 817 00:44:57,611 --> 00:45:00,322 Mandalorian belief is that 818 00:45:00,406 --> 00:45:05,452 whoever possesses the Darksaber rules Mandalore. 819 00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:10,249 And you cannot accept it as a gift. You have to win it in battle. 820 00:45:10,332 --> 00:45:14,420 And for anyone who has seen Clone Wars and Rebels, 821 00:45:14,503 --> 00:45:17,339 they know that Bo-Katan accepted it one time. 822 00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:24,012 And she believes that moment led to the Night of a Thousand Tears. 823 00:45:24,096 --> 00:45:27,057 Which was the destruction of the planet and the people. 824 00:45:27,141 --> 00:45:30,436 ARMORER: Bo-Katan is a cautionary tale. 825 00:45:31,103 --> 00:45:33,772 She once laid claim to rule Mandalore 826 00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:37,651 based purely on blood and the sword you now possess. 827 00:45:38,861 --> 00:45:40,612 FAVREAU: I think people expected Mando. 828 00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:43,824 He had the sword, he's gonna take the throne. 829 00:45:43,907 --> 00:45:50,456 He's gonna change from a travelling bounty hunter to Aragorn or something. 830 00:45:51,498 --> 00:45:54,835 And you felt like, "Oh, that's seems like where you're gonna go with it." 831 00:45:54,918 --> 00:45:59,590 But if you look at the clues, it actually hopefully, 832 00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:01,675 makes you reach the conclusion of where we went 833 00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:05,679 because if you notice in the first time he uses Darksaber, 834 00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:08,557 it's heavy for him. Even The Armorer tells him that. 835 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,476 ARMORER: There. Feel it. 836 00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:13,979 You are too weak to fight the Darksaber. 837 00:46:15,022 --> 00:46:17,691 It will win if you fight against it. 838 00:46:19,568 --> 00:46:21,987 You cannot control it with your strength. 839 00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:27,242 FAVREAU: But then Bo-Katan gets her hands on the Darksaber when Din Djarin's trapped 840 00:46:27,326 --> 00:46:30,287 and she uses it like a fencing foil. 841 00:46:30,370 --> 00:46:33,457 She coveted that Darksaber so much 842 00:46:34,249 --> 00:46:38,837 but without even thinking gives it back him before he wakes up. 843 00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:40,464 After she rescues him. 844 00:46:40,547 --> 00:46:44,551 And so, what many may have expected to be a show down between the two of them, 845 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:48,138 ends up with them both going for something very different 846 00:46:48,222 --> 00:46:49,598 and working together. 847 00:46:49,681 --> 00:46:53,018 And ultimately, all of the different Mandalorian groups coming together. 848 00:46:53,101 --> 00:46:54,645 BO-KATAN: Mandalorians. 849 00:46:54,728 --> 00:46:57,439 It is time to retake our home world. 850 00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:00,943 I need volunteers from both tribes. 851 00:47:01,443 --> 00:47:02,528 FILONI: They need each other. 852 00:47:02,611 --> 00:47:04,446 And we are learning all the time 853 00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:06,782 that we need other people to help us in our life. 854 00:47:06,865 --> 00:47:10,744 So that's why these things are powerful and relatable. 855 00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:12,538 For Mandalore! 856 00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:14,623 ALL: For Mandalore! 857 00:47:14,706 --> 00:47:17,668 FILONI: In Star Wars, you want a feeling of hope, 858 00:47:17,751 --> 00:47:22,631 a feeling of adventure but more so uplifting positivity to be happening. 859 00:47:22,714 --> 00:47:25,884 ARMORER: It is a sign that the next age is upon us. 860 00:47:25,968 --> 00:47:29,346 FILONI: I think we need a range of stories and experiences in Star Wars 861 00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:32,808 that go from being cute and fun to being serious and dark. 862 00:47:32,891 --> 00:47:36,270 You knew in the old movies when Darth Vader showed up, 863 00:47:36,353 --> 00:47:37,479 it was time to get serious. 864 00:47:37,563 --> 00:47:41,108 But you knew when it was fun when you see the Jawas or the Ewoks. 865 00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:42,651 It was a little more lighthearted. 866 00:47:42,734 --> 00:47:45,362 But you also knew that those lighthearted things 867 00:47:45,445 --> 00:47:48,073 that seem fun and simple might pay off later in a big way. 868 00:47:48,156 --> 00:47:49,324 They might be meaningful. 869 00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:52,494 The smallest lives, the most insignificant people 870 00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:55,122 can sometimes rise up and do the greatest things. 871 00:47:57,958 --> 00:48:00,919 If you wanna see Baby Yoda walking around 872 00:48:01,003 --> 00:48:05,090 in a metal body like exoskeleton power suit like Ripley in Aliens 873 00:48:05,173 --> 00:48:06,216 we've got that. 874 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,261 -IG-12: Yes. Yes. Yes. -(LIVELY CHATTER) 875 00:48:09,344 --> 00:48:11,263 FILONI: I thought it was really fun idea. 876 00:48:11,346 --> 00:48:17,019 I never try to lose touch with the kid that saw Star Wars that I was. 877 00:48:17,102 --> 00:48:19,104 And think, "Boy, I would've loved that." 878 00:48:19,187 --> 00:48:21,773 (WEATHERS LAUGH) 879 00:48:21,857 --> 00:48:23,567 Go, Grogu. Go. 880 00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:30,407 MANZEL: I was actually piloting IG, 881 00:48:30,490 --> 00:48:33,744 so I was the one who had IG strapped to my shoulders. 882 00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:36,038 And these guys puppeteered the Baby inside of it. 883 00:48:36,121 --> 00:48:37,831 Rick, Rick Galinson built IG. 884 00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:40,125 Amazing piece of art itself. 885 00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:41,793 Inside the cavity, where Grogu lives, 886 00:48:41,877 --> 00:48:44,755 he has two control stations to make him walk around. 887 00:48:44,838 --> 00:48:47,799 And when Grogu moves, these two make the character walk. 888 00:48:47,883 --> 00:48:49,468 It actually moves Grogu. 889 00:48:49,551 --> 00:48:53,347 So these are motorized and we have a duplicate of this chassis area 890 00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:56,475 that's a control station and when we move these sticks like this, 891 00:48:56,558 --> 00:48:57,809 these ones follow suit. 892 00:48:57,893 --> 00:49:01,563 And looks like he's piloting the character and not the other way around. 893 00:49:01,647 --> 00:49:05,108 Once it got on set, we kind of knew that something special was happening. 894 00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:10,030 FILONI: There's serious stakes and people get hurt and it's a battle. 895 00:49:10,113 --> 00:49:13,992 But here's this child, this little Baby Yoda, 896 00:49:14,076 --> 00:49:16,620 Grogu, that because... 897 00:49:16,703 --> 00:49:20,666 If he's nothing else, he's filled with heart and compassion. 898 00:49:20,749 --> 00:49:24,086 And he wants to save and protect. And that's what he wants to do. 899 00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:25,462 He protects The Mandalorian, 900 00:49:25,545 --> 00:49:27,297 who doesn't seem to need a lot of protection. 901 00:49:27,381 --> 00:49:31,093 Grogu, I'm going to need you to be brave for me, okay? 902 00:49:31,176 --> 00:49:32,219 (BABBLING) 903 00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:33,637 We can't keep running. 904 00:49:34,513 --> 00:49:38,558 If we don't take out Moff Gideon, this will never end. 905 00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:41,728 FAMUYIWA: With all great villains, 906 00:49:41,812 --> 00:49:44,731 there's a guilty level of likeability 907 00:49:44,815 --> 00:49:48,944 that we have as an audience for these characters. 908 00:49:49,027 --> 00:49:53,198 And even though we might revile what they're doing or their motivation, 909 00:49:53,281 --> 00:49:56,159 there's always been a certain charisma. 910 00:49:56,243 --> 00:50:00,789 I mean, from Vader on, there was an attraction to these characters 911 00:50:00,872 --> 00:50:05,460 and I think that is what Giancarlo brought to the role of Moff Gideon. 912 00:50:05,544 --> 00:50:09,089 Thanks to your planet's rich resources, 913 00:50:09,756 --> 00:50:12,843 I have constructed the next generation Dark Trooper suit 914 00:50:13,385 --> 00:50:15,887 forged from beskar armor. 915 00:50:16,763 --> 00:50:20,809 The most impressive part is that it has me in it. 916 00:50:21,476 --> 00:50:23,186 FAVREAU: Giancarlo's a storyteller. 917 00:50:23,270 --> 00:50:24,855 And he thinks things through. 918 00:50:24,938 --> 00:50:27,315 He considers it, then completely invests in it. 919 00:50:27,399 --> 00:50:29,568 And when you're working with an actor like that, 920 00:50:29,651 --> 00:50:31,570 you're really working with a partner. 921 00:50:31,653 --> 00:50:34,281 They're helping you. They're asking you the right questions. 922 00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:35,991 So, it's a real collaboration. 923 00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:38,827 Did it once here, 'cause I loved how it looks. 924 00:50:38,910 --> 00:50:40,871 But then I did once... 925 00:50:40,954 --> 00:50:44,791 In fact, I did it to retake the homeworld of Mandalore. 926 00:50:45,459 --> 00:50:46,960 And I kind of like that too. 927 00:50:47,044 --> 00:50:48,086 -MAN: Yeah. -So we'll play it. 928 00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:50,964 Part of what the success of Mando is 929 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:55,177 is that we're talking about mythology and the hero's journey. 930 00:50:55,260 --> 00:50:58,930 Even Moff's journey somewhat as a warlord, 931 00:50:59,014 --> 00:51:04,269 as a warden of the galaxy with aspiration, 932 00:51:04,352 --> 00:51:06,646 even his journey is the hero's journey. 933 00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:09,357 Because he's looking for something he doesn't have. 934 00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:15,781 His first lines in that first season are, "You have something I want." 935 00:51:16,698 --> 00:51:18,325 I mean, that's powerful stuff. 936 00:51:24,664 --> 00:51:28,335 FAMUYIWA: There are so many repercussions that have happened 937 00:51:28,418 --> 00:51:30,337 because of the fall of the Empire. 938 00:51:30,420 --> 00:51:33,840 And this figure in Giancarlo 939 00:51:33,924 --> 00:51:37,636 was kind of a reminder of what that past Empire was. 940 00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,471 Long Live the Empire! 941 00:51:39,554 --> 00:51:41,306 ALL: Long Live the Empire! 942 00:51:41,389 --> 00:51:46,686 But he also in many ways is a free agent and has his own ideas. 943 00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:52,567 Moff Gideon sems to have really focused a little bit more on the materials. 944 00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:55,779 He had the Darksaber, that enabled him to be stronger. 945 00:51:57,447 --> 00:51:59,950 He creates this new Dark Trooper suit. 946 00:52:00,033 --> 00:52:02,994 What was missing that he's trying to put together? 947 00:52:03,078 --> 00:52:05,413 Well, it's the Force, is what was missing. 948 00:52:06,081 --> 00:52:10,001 He wants that kind of power. Which I thought made it complete. 949 00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:13,547 You were a talented people, but your time has passed. 950 00:52:14,631 --> 00:52:20,303 However, as you can see, Mandalore will live on in me. 951 00:52:23,265 --> 00:52:26,101 CHIANG: We never really... One of the challenges for Mandalore 952 00:52:26,184 --> 00:52:28,854 is we wanted to imply that there was a hidden base 953 00:52:28,937 --> 00:52:31,481 where Moff Gideon was conducting his experiments. 954 00:52:31,565 --> 00:52:33,984 And we thought, "What should that environment be?" 955 00:52:34,067 --> 00:52:36,194 Because the planet itself has been devastated. 956 00:52:36,278 --> 00:52:40,240 We thought that there might be these pockets of natural caves 957 00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:44,786 and that's where the Empire would come in and modify some of that architecture. 958 00:52:44,870 --> 00:52:47,247 But then build their Empire aesthetic to it. 959 00:52:47,914 --> 00:52:51,418 We were gonna have these TIE Interceptors and we were gonna turn them white. 960 00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:53,211 Then we thought, "Instead of having them 961 00:52:53,295 --> 00:52:55,046 "just sit on the tarmac of these hangars, 962 00:52:55,130 --> 00:52:57,883 "how about if we hung 'em from the ceiling like bats?" 963 00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:04,306 It was all those very subtle emotional cues 964 00:53:04,389 --> 00:53:06,600 that we always try to build in to sort of reinforce, 965 00:53:06,683 --> 00:53:09,269 "This is an underground environment, this is the Empire 966 00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:10,937 "but we're seeing a fresh, new context." 967 00:53:11,021 --> 00:53:13,690 And so, that whole environment is now the centerpiece 968 00:53:13,773 --> 00:53:15,483 for this giant battle at the very end. 969 00:53:15,567 --> 00:53:19,571 FAMUYIWA: We're in our final battle between Moff and Bo, 970 00:53:19,654 --> 00:53:26,411 which turns into the final battle between Mando, the kid, and Bo and Moff Gideon. 971 00:53:26,494 --> 00:53:28,580 Which ultimately we've been building to this. 972 00:53:28,663 --> 00:53:31,875 So let's do some great work this week. 973 00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:33,877 And have some fun doing it. 974 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,338 So, here we go, marking rehearsal. 975 00:53:36,421 --> 00:53:38,131 And action. 976 00:53:42,135 --> 00:53:46,056 Rick's episode, episode eight, there's a lot of action on that one. 977 00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:50,727 It's difficult but, man, I love the challenge. 978 00:53:50,810 --> 00:53:52,437 That one felt pretty damn good. 979 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,398 SACKHOFF: Lateef is one of the best stunt performers 980 00:53:55,482 --> 00:53:56,816 I've ever worked with in my life. 981 00:53:56,900 --> 00:53:58,360 He's so, so, so good. 982 00:53:58,443 --> 00:54:03,406 In this season, we had an opportunity to actually do some stunts 983 00:54:03,490 --> 00:54:06,034 and some fights together and I loved every minute of it. 984 00:54:06,117 --> 00:54:08,370 My biggest struggle with Katee is telling her no. 985 00:54:08,453 --> 00:54:10,330 'Cause she wants to do everything, which I love. 986 00:54:10,413 --> 00:54:12,374 SACKHOFF: There was this moment where they said, 987 00:54:12,457 --> 00:54:16,795 "Okay, and then you slide across the floor and you bring out your shield 988 00:54:16,878 --> 00:54:18,380 "and you protect Mando. 989 00:54:18,463 --> 00:54:21,174 "But you immediately come back up and start shooting again. 990 00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:22,634 "The sparks are gonna come down. 991 00:54:22,717 --> 00:54:26,638 "But don't do that stuff, Katee, we'll do that with Joanna." 992 00:54:27,472 --> 00:54:30,141 And I went, "It's just a flickin' knee slide, right? 993 00:54:30,225 --> 00:54:33,853 "Like a run, knee slide, shield up, guns, keep going, right?" 994 00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:36,398 He went, "Well, yeah." I was like, "All right, cool." 995 00:54:36,898 --> 00:54:39,025 So I just did it. 996 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:43,154 You could hear JJ, our stunt coordinator, scream at the end of it. 997 00:54:43,238 --> 00:54:45,365 'Cause he screamed at me like I was his child 998 00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:47,826 that had just done something that was told not to do. 999 00:54:47,909 --> 00:54:50,078 But that he was also slightly proud of. 1000 00:54:50,161 --> 00:54:52,539 And it was this, "Katee! 1001 00:54:53,498 --> 00:54:55,667 "(GASPING) That was awesome." 1002 00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:58,503 It was so good. And I was so proud of myself. 1003 00:54:59,254 --> 00:55:02,549 Hand over the Darksaber and I will give you a warrior's death. 1004 00:55:02,632 --> 00:55:03,633 (BO-KATAN SCREAMING) 1005 00:55:03,717 --> 00:55:06,261 (BOTH GRUNTING) 1006 00:55:07,804 --> 00:55:10,015 I know the inference was that always one day 1007 00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:12,225 that Moff Gideon probably would meet his demise. 1008 00:55:12,309 --> 00:55:16,062 And that wasn't a problem for me at all. 1009 00:55:16,146 --> 00:55:18,398 It's just when and how 1010 00:55:18,481 --> 00:55:24,029 and how tangible it is for an audience to see what may happen to him. 1011 00:55:24,112 --> 00:55:29,117 I love this particular franchise because it's never clearly defined 1012 00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:30,785 what really happens. 1013 00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:33,830 Even for Luke Skywalker, when he goes over the edge, he's over the edge. 1014 00:55:33,913 --> 00:55:38,209 You don't see that brutal demise or death. 1015 00:55:38,293 --> 00:55:42,630 And there's always a possibility that the rise from the ashes is possible. 1016 00:55:42,714 --> 00:55:46,343 (RUMBLING) 1017 00:55:49,888 --> 00:55:54,017 FILONI: Looking at The Mandalorian, he starts out as such a lone individual. 1018 00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:57,228 In the very description he's the lone gunman. 1019 00:55:57,896 --> 00:56:03,026 Building him into a character that not only accepts family 1020 00:56:03,109 --> 00:56:05,945 and having Grogu as like a de facto son, 1021 00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:08,281 but to welcome others into family 1022 00:56:08,365 --> 00:56:10,992 and be an arbitrator between different groups of people 1023 00:56:11,076 --> 00:56:14,245 to bring them together is quite a change for him. 1024 00:56:14,329 --> 00:56:16,706 FAVREAU: Din Djarin's a Mandalorian but he's not from there. 1025 00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:19,209 He's become one because of the way he lives his life 1026 00:56:19,292 --> 00:56:21,294 and what he values and who he's met. 1027 00:56:21,378 --> 00:56:23,046 And who saved him. 1028 00:56:23,129 --> 00:56:28,301 And Grogu is in this family not because that's his biological dad 1029 00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:33,598 but because they're fulfilling those roles in each other's lives. 1030 00:56:33,681 --> 00:56:38,728 ARMORER: You are now Din Grogu, Mandalorian apprentice. 1031 00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:41,523 FILONI: With Star Wars, most of the time, it's about family. 1032 00:56:41,606 --> 00:56:42,941 Different types of families. 1033 00:56:43,024 --> 00:56:49,114 Not just in way that it's your mom and dad and close relatives 1034 00:56:49,197 --> 00:56:51,366 but families that are created out of necessity. 1035 00:56:51,449 --> 00:56:53,076 Friends that come together, 1036 00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:55,412 people that have things in common that create a bond 1037 00:56:55,495 --> 00:56:56,788 and become like a family. 1038 00:56:56,871 --> 00:56:59,332 There are many different interpretations of family now. 1039 00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:03,086 And I think that, that's something that people are relating to 1040 00:57:03,169 --> 00:57:04,921 in this great galaxy. 1041 00:57:06,047 --> 00:57:08,383 FAVREAU: It's more about what you value, 1042 00:57:08,466 --> 00:57:11,428 what you're willing to sacrifice, what you hold dear. 1043 00:57:11,511 --> 00:57:15,056 And the role that you fill in each other's lives. 1044 00:57:15,140 --> 00:57:17,016 I like that that's where this landed. 1045 00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:19,144 I don't know if that was what we set out to do 1046 00:57:19,227 --> 00:57:23,189 but storytelling isn't always about that, it's what you discover and what comes out. 1047 00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:27,735 Resolving the season the way we did, 1048 00:57:27,819 --> 00:57:34,284 it does fulfill one of the western tropes of the gunfighter moves on 1049 00:57:34,367 --> 00:57:39,664 and things change, his presence has helped things take the next step. 1050 00:57:39,747 --> 00:57:42,792 But that doesn't mean the gunfighter belongs there. 1051 00:57:43,501 --> 00:57:44,794 Maybe they get a brief respite, 1052 00:57:44,878 --> 00:57:47,630 but you know that new adventures are around the corner. 1053 00:57:49,632 --> 00:57:53,344 FILONI: It might feel like the ending of one adventure 1054 00:57:53,428 --> 00:57:55,930 but it's always the beginning of another now. 1055 00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:00,727 (WHOOSHING) 1056 00:58:01,853 --> 00:58:03,646 (DOOR HISSES)