New Rumor For Leslye Headland's Upcoming Star Wars Series 'The Acolyte' Provides Major Details About Amandla Stenberg And Manny Jacinto's Characters

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)

The latest rumor for Leslye Headland’s upcoming Star Wars series, The Acolyte, claims to reveal significant details about the characters that actors Amandla Stenberg and Manny Jacinto will play.

This latest rumor comes from Daniel RPK and was shared to X by Portal Galáctico. The rumor claims that Amandla Stenberg will “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.”

🚨 RUMOR 🚨

As duas protagonistas de The Acolyte são irmãs gêmeas de origem Sith, mas uma delas cai nas mãos dos Jedi enquanto a outra fica com os Sith.

Uma irmã é boa enquanto a outra é má. Amandla Stenberg interpreta as duas e ambas são sensitivas à força.

🗣️: Daniel RPK pic.twitter.com/gnYvzhbhoL

— Portal Galáctico | Star Wars (@opgalactico) December 26, 2023

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.”

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: Manny Jacinto 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)

This rumor comes 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: The cast of The Acolyte (L-R) Lee Jung-Jae, Charlie Barnett, Rebecca Henderson, Dafne Keen, Amandla Stenberg, Leslye Headland, Manny Jacinto, Dean-Charles Chapman, Jodie Turner-Smith and Joonas Suotamo attend the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by 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,”

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: Leslye Headland onstage during the Acolyte studio panel at the Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)

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.”

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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.”

LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: (L-R) Dafne Keen Fernández, Charlie Barnett, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Dean Charles Chapman, and Joonas Suotamo onstage during the studio panel at the Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)

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