Star Wars Actor Katee Sackhoff Says She Didn't Understand Her Character in The Mandalorian, Which 'Destroyed' Her Confidence

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-actor-katee-sackhoff-says-she-didnt-understand-her-character-in-the-mandalorian-which-destroyed-her-confidence

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omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 59 pts · 351d (7 replies)

She will always be Starbuck to me

Nima@leminal.space · 15 pts · 351d

what an awesome mess of a character. god I love her.

CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 351d

Hell yeah! Fuck you star wars. We had her first

Thorry84@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 351d (2 replies)

She was a pretty good Starbuck, but nothing comes close to Dirk Benedict to me. Hearing the name Starbuck instantly pops in an image of Dirk in his uniform, jacket unbuttoned, smoking a stogie and gambling.

Probably because I'm old.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 351d

Me too. Saw the cast at a comic con and they looked so dejected and tired I just couldn't walk up and say hi. Imagine a middle-aged dude coming up and saying, "I loved you guys when I was a little kid!" Yikes.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 351d

If we could just combine these images somehow...

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 351d (1 reply)

She will always be Bitch Pudding to me.

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 351d

Blam!

KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 351d (4 replies)

It's a disney product, the character exists to sell subscriptions.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 351d (3 replies)

Don't forget about merchandise

KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 351d (2 replies)

Preach Star wars isn't any different than any other disney product. Empty, soulless corposlop. All the art and meaning twisted only to serve capital.

too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 351d (1 reply)

Star Wars did it long before it was owned by Disney. Empire and Return were basically made to sell toys.

KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 350d

Explains the Ewoks, also something that Spaceballs riffed on.. 😔 All of our cultural institutions have been infected

Broadfern@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 351d

Self-esteem turmoil is brutal, especially when it comes to a pursuit you’re passionate about.

She played the character really well FWIW, so hopefully her next project brings back her confidence.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 351d

Her character really didn’t do all that much ..

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -22 pts · 351d (1 reply)

Hopefully Bitch Pudding can come back from this. BLAM!

"I've always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. It always felt grounded in some part of my belly of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants, I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her."

"Well, wake me up when you figure it out, shit stick!"

thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 351d

she probably didn't realize that is the character. her confused and uncomfortable with the nuclear badass she is supposed to represent to her kin

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · -45 pts · 351d (9 replies)

Someone takes themselves a little too seriously. Jeez

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 61 pts · 351d (8 replies)

Understanding the character she's playing is her job. Freaking out a bit when she can't do that sounds reasonable.

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · -38 pts · 351d (7 replies)

enough to impact her confidence? It's Star Wars.

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 27 pts · 351d (5 replies)

Its her career to do that and she made a name for herself playing that character.

troed@fedia.io · 13 pts · 351d (4 replies)

I do think Starbuck made a name for herself playing Starbuck though.

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · -10 pts · 351d (3 replies)

Firefly had 14 episodes, 23 years ago.

Star wars Rebels had 77.

Stovetop@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 351d (1 reply)
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troed@fedia.io · 14 pts · 351d

... and somewhat successfully at that:

She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for Battlestar Galactica and won Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005.

troed@fedia.io · 3 pts · 351d

Try again ;)

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 351d

Don't you want to be good at your job? It's a big part of your job security.

Like even when I'm shilling in fintech, which I think is bullshit, I'm still going to sweat if I feel like I'm not getting something.

Have you never experienced that? What about in school?