The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm appeared to have spoiled the plot for the company’s upcoming Star Wars series, The Acolyte.
(Center): Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
As noted by Reddit user Representative_Big26, a closed caption from a recently released TV spot describes Amandla Stenberg’s character as Osha as she shouts “I didn’t do it.”
Screenshot from Star Wars Leaks subreddit
However, Disney and Lucasfilm have been attempting to lead audiences to believe that Stenberg is playing a Dark Side character named Mae, who is hunting down and killing Jedi. The Jedi believe that Mae is the former student of Jedi Master Sol.
Given this information, Sol sets out to track down and confront his former student.
This new TV spot, which originally identified Stenberg’s character as Osha, appears to indicate that Mae is impersonating Osha. And it’s actually Osha that was Sol’s former student and not Mae.
This appears to confirm a major rumor regarding the show that Stenberg was playing twins, one a Light Side character and the other a Dark Side character. This rumor came from scooper Daniel RPK and was shared to X by Portal Galáctico back in December.
The rumor claimed that Stenberg “play twin sisters of Sith origin, but one of them falls into the hands of the Jedi while the other stays with the Sith.”
“One sister is good while the other is bad,” the rumor states. “Amandla Stenberg plays them both and they are both Force-sensitive.”
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ComicBookMovie.com would provide further details about the rumor claiming that one of the twins will be trained by the Jedi while the show primarily follows the other sister who is trained to become a Sith assassin and is tasked with killing Carrie Anne Moss’ Jedi Master character.
The Sith assassin also will attempt to kill Moss’ character without using a lightsaber, but instead uses martial arts and her hand-to-hand skills.
As for Jacinto’s character, Richtman alleges that he will play “both versions of his own character. One good personality, one bad.”
Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
This rumor came in the wake of one from Bespin Bulletin that the Star Wars show was undergoing reshoots in the United Kingdom at a number of locations including the Rickmansworth forest. At those reshoots Stenberg’s was allegedly playing a Sith character and was in a duel with a Jedi character.
Notably, Bespin Bulletin detailed that Stenberg’s character was visually different than how she appeared during her appearance in a trailer shown at Star Wars Celebration in April.
The outlet explained, “The Sith appeared to be Amandla Stenberg’s character, though the appearance of the character is different to the shots of her that featured during The Acolyte trailer shown at Star Wars Celebration. During the Rickmansworth shoot, Stenberg’s hair was notably longer and was tied in a unique style.”
“Stenberg’s outfit featured a short sleeve dark grey top and dark grey bottoms with black boots and a piece of black clothing placed over the top of the grey shirt. The black item of clothing that sat over the grey shirt flowed down the actresses back like a cape and appeared have a similar piece placed in front of the outfit that ran between the actresses legs. Completing the outfit was a crimson red lightsaber which Stenberg swung towards her co-star,” he added.
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: attends the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 attends the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Disney)
Showrunner and creator Leslye Headland previously provided details about what the show is about at Star Wars Celebration.
She informed Entertainment Weekly, “We are looking at a timeline where there is peace throughout the galaxy. And it was very challenging and interesting to make a Star Wars with no war in it. So the question became, ‘Well, what should the show be about if it’s not going to be about galactic conflict?’”
“And I think that what makes this show different and interesting is that it’s from the perspective of the bad guys or the villains of Star Wars,” she answered her own question. “These are people who are using the Force in their own way, dipping into the darker sides of the Force and are doing it without being sanctioned by the larger institution, which, in this case, is the Jedi.”
(L-R): Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Director Leslye Headland on the set of Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
Headland then shared, “I think that Star Wars is always about some version of the underdog versus the institution. And I just thought it was very interesting to do a show about the bad guys and to set that during that time period made the most sense. So I think that’s what sets it apart. It’s kind of almost flipped. We have more Jedi than you’ve seen in any of the of the Star Wars content, but at the same time, I think you see more morally ambiguous characters than you’ve seen in other Star Wars content.”
She concluded, “And I think I can say this pretty confidently, I don’t think you’re going to see action in other shows the way that you see it used and utilized in our show.”
Amandla Stenberg in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
Actress Jodie Turner-Smith also informed Entertainment Weekly that the series is “part of a wave of more inclusive and beautifully represented Star Wars shows. So that felt really cool. And I felt the importance of that, especially in some of the stuff that I got to where everyone really was excited about what they were seeing and what that would maybe mean for different fans — fans that don’t necessarily look like what you normally think the traditional Star Wars fan looks like. Because if there’s anything that I learned from this show, it’s that the Star Wars fan is varied.”
Turner-Smith was not the only to use identity politics to promote the series. Charlie Barnett also detailed to Entertainment Weekly, “I don’t think I could have ever imagined myself as a Jedi. Yes, one, because I was not reflected for so many times throughout these films in the past. But it was also something that didn’t equate in my mind. I don’t know about you guys as well.”
He added, “So to see such a diverse group played out now, I know that it’s going be a healthy reflection on so many other young people and old people. No ageism allowed in this. It’s Star Wars we can all fit. I think it’s going to be a really impactful. It’s gonna be a cool moment for me for sure, I can tell you that.”
(Center, L-R): Yord Fandar (Charlie Barnett) and Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon (Dafne Keen) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
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