Star Wars: The Acolyte Creator Made Major Changes After Episode 5's Big Reveal

Manny Jacinto earned a lot more screen time for Qimir on The Acolyte.

Star Wars fans met their new favorite villain last week, as Star Wars: The Acolyte used its fifth episode to flip the script on its own story and reveal Manny Jacinto 's Qimir as the Sith presence looming large over the season. Jacinto's character, known also as the Stranger, has become the talk of the galaxy over the past week, and fans are clearly ready to see more of him over the last three episodes of The Acolyte Season 1 .

"This is an interesting tidbit: Originally, even up until shooting, The Stranger was not in a lot of the rest of the season," Headland revealed."He was much more of a tee-up for a second season arc. But I saw Manny's screen test early on in pre-production and I just thought, 'There will be riots in the streets if I don't . Here we go, I guess I'm rewriting an episode.' Manny was so impressive in every aspect.

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