Star Wars Celebration: Everything Announced at the Ahsoka Panel

The Ahsoka sheet astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025 was filled with teases for Season 2, a archetypal look astatine Rory McCann arsenic Baylan Skoll, stories from the making of the series, and overmuch more. To guarantee you don't miss a thing, we're present to interruption it each down successful 1 spot for you.

While we person yet to spot footage of Season 2 of Ahsoka oregon get a merchandise date, we did larn a spot astir what we tin expect successful these caller episodes and it's astir clip we jumped close in.

First Look astatine Rory McCann arsenic Baylan Skoll successful Ahsoka Revealed astatine Star Wars Celebration

The Ahsoka sheet astatine Star Wars Celebration gave america our archetypal look astatine Rory McCann arsenic Baylan Skoll successful Season 2. For those unfamaliar, McCann is taking connected the relation aft the passing of Ray Stevenson.

Stevenson died conscionable 3 months earlier the premiere of Ahsoka, but his portrayal of Baylan was the precocious constituent of the bid for galore fans.

Ahsoka bid creator Dave Filoni talked much astir the situation of moving connected aft Ray, particularly due to the fact that helium was "the astir beauteous idiosyncratic connected surface and off." However, portion it took immoderate time, helium is "confident Ray would beryllium blessed with the absorption we've chosen."

For Filoni, Baylan is meant to beryllium the parallel to Ahsoka successful each way, and he's truthful grateful that "there's a blueprint for what this quality should beryllium due to the fact that Ray had played him truthful iconically." Lastly, Filoni noted that helium felt precise fortunate to conscionable and formed McCann, arsenic helium knew his "whole absorption was not letting Ray down."

Hayden Christensen Is Officially Returning arsenic Anakin Skywalker successful Ahsoka Season 2

After playing an important relation successful the archetypal play of Ahsoka, it was confirmed astatine Star Wars Celebration that Hayden Christensen volition officially beryllium returning arsenic Anakin Skywalker successful Season 2.

We didn't larn overmuch astir what Anakin's relation volition beryllium successful these caller episodes, but Christensen did halt by the Ahsoka sheet to sermon returning arsenic the beloved character.

"It was a imagination to get to do," Christensen said. "The mode they conceived however to bash it was superb successful getting to research the World Between Worlds. I thought it was each truly exciting."

This was besides evidently a large woody for Ahsoka bid creator Dave Filoni arsenic helium joked helium knew helium needed to enactment with Christensen/Anakin again and had to "invent full dimensions to marque it happen."

For Christensen, 1 of the joys of returning arsenic Anakin was being capable to bring to beingness a mentation of the quality from the Clone Wars that helium truly didn't get to play.

"All of this had been presented good successful the animated world, but I was truly excited to bash that successful unrecorded action," Christensen said. "As overmuch arsenic I emotion the accepted Jedi robes I wore during the prequels, it was breathtaking to get to spot Anakin with a caller look."

Ahsoka Will See the Return of Many More Familiar Faces

The Ahsoka sheet didn't diagnostic a accepted trailer, but it did springiness america a glimpse into what we tin expect from Season 2 and who we tin expect to spot return. The trailer had nary moving footage and was conscionable filled with images, but it did corroborate Sabine, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper volition each beryllium back.

Elsewhere successful the panel, it was revealed that Admiral Ackbar volition person a large portion to play successful the upcoming communicative and volition face-off against Grand Admiral Thrawn. There volition besides beryllium incredibly adorable Loth-Kittens and, according to Filoni, "X-Wings, A-Wings, and Wings I can't archer you about."

We don't yet cognize erstwhile Ahsoka volition beryllium returning to Disney+, but it was shared that the squad is inactive re-writing episodes starring into accumulation starting adjacent week.

Behind-the-Scenes Stories Reveal More About Ahsoka

Alongside the large reveals for Season 2, we learned a batch much astir Ahsoka, its inspirations, and much from the actors and creatives who brought it to life. It each began with Filoni sharing that helium has been precise inspired by Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazki successful his beingness and that his favourite movie is Princess Mononoke. In fact, that movie is the crushed Ahsoka has 2 wolf fangs connected her cheeks.

Filoni was joined by Jon Favreau and Rosario Dawson connected signifier and they talked a spot astir however the Ahsoka bid was brought to life. It each began aft Season 1 of The Mandalorian and happened erstwhile Filoni and Favreau were taking astir what they should bring to beingness next.

Filoni's emotion for Ahsoka Tano is nary concealed arsenic helium helped make her with George Lucas, and the brace agreed they should play with the thought of bringing her to live-action. This led to them doing an occurrence for Season 2 of The Mandalorian featuring her aft uncovering the close idiosyncratic and aesthetic for the character.

We each cognize present that Rosario Dawson was the 1 chosen to play Ahsoka successful live-action aft Ashley Eckstein played her truthful wonderfully successful the animated world, and Dawson talked astir what it was similar to find retired she'd beryllium playing the character.

This each happened aft the large online propulsion for Dawson to play Ahsoka, and Filoni and Favreau some agreed she'd beryllium large for the character. When it was clip for Dawson to get the role, she said they showed her creation and drawings they had done of her arsenic the quality and she needed to mute herself connected the video telephone due to the fact that she was jumping up and down and freaking out.

Even still, they were treating this Ahsoka apperance arsenic a one-off arsenic they inactive weren't definite they could marque Ahsoka enactment agelong term.

"Even if this ne'er happens again, I’m truthful grateful," Dawson said. "It was conscionable truthful magnificent connected truthful galore levels. To spot the instrumentality absorption that allowed this communicative to proceed was a imagination travel true.”

As we each know, Ahsoka's travel would proceed acold beyond that 1 episode. While determination was inactive uncertainty they could get Ahsoka connected surface connected a day-to-day ground arsenic it was a analyzable thing, it each proved to beryllium worthy it successful the end.

"When we started to determination into the Ahsoka episodes with revisted characters similar Bo-Katan, everything shifted toward a continuation of what Dave and George had done with animation portion culminating storylines that already been established," Favreau said.

For the team, Ahsoka is not truthful antithetic from watching A New Hope arsenic it it starts successful the mediate of Ahsoka's travel and determination is truthful overmuch that came earlier and after. It conscionable made cleanable sense.

There is besides truthful overmuch yet to larn astir Ahsoka, and Dawson is conscionable arsenic excited astir america arsenic getting to research and capable retired her story.

"I did not cognize wherever this quality was going successful unrecorded action," Dawson said. "I could recognize her fear, anxiety, and accent and tendency to assistance from afar. She wasn't consenting to instrumentality implicit the mentor relation herself, truthful it became a fantastic happening that I got to explore."

For more, cheque retired wherefore Ahsoka delivers specified a almighty testament to Anakin Skywalker's bequest and each the biggest quality from The Mandalorian & Grogu and Andor panels.

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