'The Acolyte' creator Leslye Headland and star Amandla Stenberg explain that shocking premiere opening scene, and how it was influenced by 'Breaking Bad.'
, and they did not have to wait long to get it as she powered up the green blade before the opening credits even appeared. Little did they know when said fight scene began that it would be her last.— an assassin later revealed to be a revenge-seeking twin named Mae who was separated from her sister Osha by the Jedi when they were young.says there was also another reason to kill off Moss’ character so soon.
In fact, there was a specific opening scene that inspired the showrunner to come out of the gate so strong. “Not to compare myself at all to Vince Gilligan, but the cold open tois one of the best cold opens ever. So whenever I sit down to write anything, I'm like, ‘Well, I won't be able to top that, but in my show, what's the version of that?’ And it felt like the best I could come up with was killing Carrie-Anne Moss. It was icing Trinity and just having everyone go, ‘I'm sorry.
As for the person that does the on-screen icing, Stenberg says a lot of work went into pulling off that jaw-dropping “Force-fu” battle. “I think about the training process, and slowly I was introduced to each element that would then lead to me knowing all the stunt choreography," says Stenberg. “So it started with just practicing slicing the air at varying degrees until I could do it without guidance, and working on the positioning of my hips and where my power would come from.
Of course, Stenberg is not just playing one character, but two. So how does her approach to playing the pair take into consideration their similarities and differences? "I think of them as always in flux with each other. So a quality that one of them might really be exhibiting, the other one is lacking. And then when that one starts to take on more of that quality, it weans in the other one. I think of them as always kind of an interplay with each other.”tradition.
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