The Acolyte’s Stars Reflect on Its Surprising Cancellation

Earlier this week, Disney introduced that Star Wars collection 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 marketing campaign towards lead actor Amandla Stenberg. Now, a few of its different stars are reflecting on the present’s sudden finish.

In a current interview with Leisure 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 already know, my character had died already within the first season,” Lee instructed 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 incredible author and director who was very proficient within the storytelling, in addition to creating characters and creating significant constructions throughout the story. So I used to be truly personally actually trying ahead to watching a season two together with her on the helm.”

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

“To listen to the information, I used to be fairly shocked personally as nicely,” Lee continued. “Truthfully, I hope that perhaps there could possibly 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 seashore—the present’s ultimate 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 completely different paths that led them again collectively, as representatives of each the sunshine and darkish sides of the Power fought to utilize their skills.

Apart from 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 a couple of shock Star Wars character cameos too, as Disney+ exhibits at all times like to do. You may stream The Acolyte‘s first, and presumably solely, season now on Disney+.

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