Rosario Dawson Had No Idea Mark Hamill Was Returning as Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian Until He Walked On Set - Star Wars Celebration

Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker showing up successful The Mandalorian remains 1 of the biggest surprises successful Star Wars history, and Rosario Dawson told america astatine Star Wars Celebration that she had nary thought his cameo was happening until Hamill walked onto the acceptable of The Book of Boba Fett.

It's already been revealed that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau had utilized Jedi Master Plo Koon arsenic a decoy erstwhile trying to fell Luke's cameo, but during our chat they besides helped stock the hilarious communicative of however Dawson had 1 of the biggest surprises of her vocation because, by accident, nary 1 told her the information of what was going on.

Concept creation of Plo Koon made to propulsion disconnected leaks. Image Credit: Disney & Lucasfilm

To support this megaton secret, the scripts involving Luke had him replaced by Plo Koon, and Dawson was nary objection to this safeguard against imaginable leaks. She recalled speechmaking astir Plo Koon's accomplishment successful the publication for The Book of Boba Fett, and it confused her conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic it would person for immoderate Star Wars instrumentality due to the fact that we each saw the Jedi Master tragically conscionable his extremity successful Revenge of the Sith.

"I was like... I don't know... but radical vanish and past they travel back, truthful possibly it's possible?" Dawson said. "And past Mark Hamill was connected acceptable and amazed maine and it was a full thing. He adjacent said, 'Plo Koon? That wouldn't adjacent marque sense!' and I'm like, 'I cognize it didn't marque sense, but I inactive had to deliberation it made consciousness due to the fact that I got the publication and everything!'

Favreau and Filoni instantly shared their regret implicit not telling her sooner, saying, "That was atrocious connected us!"

"I deliberation we assumed you'd gotten told the close information," Filoni added with a laugh. "We were successful it truthful much."

"There were 2 secrets we knew we had to support connected the show," Favreau said. "One was Grogu's uncover astatine the extremity of the archetypal episode, and the different 1 was Luke Skywalker astatine the extremity of play two. We were biting our nails each the mode the full mode through, and we someway miraculously made it cleanly to some of those due to the fact that everything other leaked. But, unfortunately, we didn't capable successful our spouse here."

Dawson laughed it disconnected arsenic well, saying, "I emotion it, they cognize I can't beryllium trusted."

For more, cheque retired our chat with Hayden Christensen astir returning to Anakin and each the biggest quality from The Mandalorian & Grogu, Ahsoka, Andor panels.

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