'You have to be in community with the audience. You have to be part of it,' says TheMandalorian executive producer Jon_Favreau about the feedback loop involved in working on a StarWars property
serves as the first major scripted series for streaming initiative Disney+. It's also the first live-actiontelevision effort and far from the last, with series based on Obi-Wan Kenobi and others in development. And it's all told through the lens of a stone-cold bounty hunter who never removes his helmet — at least not in public, and only once for the streaming audience.film's opening crawl.
The secret was surprisingly easy to keep. Favreau and Disney agreed to withhold any information about The Child from marketing and merchandising, which often leads to early spoiler leaks on massive franchises such as's cast and crew, however, there was no need for a test audience to know an undeniable truth: The Child was a star.
Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the Mandalorian's formidable foe, Moff Gideon, found himself in possession of another top-secret piece oflore: the Darksaber, a weapon with roots in the franchise's beloved animated incarnations. But even the iron-jawedheavyweight had to break character long enough to admire The Child. "I always knew this baby was going to be the star of this show," he says with a laugh.
Taika Waititi, who helmed the season finale and voiced the android assassin IG-11, also needed to take occasional breaks to sit down with The Child in his hands. "He reminded me so much of my babies when they were 6 months old," he says. "I couldn't help it, I had to hold it in the same way." Clearly, the absence of heart was never an issue on set, whether through The Child or the involvement of extras from The 501st Legion — a collective offans who suit up as Stormtroopers. The heart owes its beating nature to the head of the operation, Favreau, whose journey toward leading the first"The fact of the matter is, as much as we love working onfor other people," says Favreau.
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