About a decade ago , everyone was sureAhsoka Tano was dead . Dead both on screen , with her show The Clone Wars all but canceled , and off - screen , because how could another Force user still be alive in the universe of Star Wars ?
Things have certainly changed . Not only did Ahsoka come back formore Clone Wars episodes , but she was also back on another animated show , Star Wars Rebels , and has been at the center of novels , comics , and even the earth of alive - military action , with appearance on The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett setting upher very own show . But even that ’s just the beginning .
Last week , Ahsoka give way back to her roots and seem in three episodes of Star Wars : Tales of the Jedi , an animated anthology from the eccentric ’s co - Godhead Dave Filoni , aiming to tell unexampled , crucial stories , about Star Wars Jedis . The show meant actress Ashley Ecksteinwould once again get to voice the reference , and io9 speak with her about returning and each of the landmark episode .
Ahsoka is back.Image: Lucasfilm
“ When Dave Filoni calls and says that there ’s a fresh project , there ’s no pitching , it ’s just how quickly we can get out the word ‘ Yes , ’ ” Eckstein told io9 last hebdomad . She memorialise her installment during the pandemic over Zoom , and each one posed unparalleled challenge and enquiry . Below , we break it all down .
Tales of the Jedi Episode 1: “Life and Death”
“ Life and Death ” tells the story of Ahsoka ’s nativity and first experience with the Force . However , since the eccentric is still a baby , Eckstein did n’t have anything to do with the episode . As a fan of the part though she was riveted by the fact she ultimately arrive to see where Ahsoka occur from .
“ It was really , really interesting to see Ahsoka ’s backstory as a babe and to see everyone in her town , ” Eckstein said . “ I guess that the trouble with Tales of the Jedi is that it open up more questions than we have answers to . Now , I have so , so many question . ”
When Eckstein was making The Clone Wars , she would ask Filoni about Ahsoka ’s backstory , but he ’d never really give her any info . “ I ask about it a lot , ” she allege . “ I always need to have a go at it her backstory . And to be honest , I do n’t fully remember what Dave say . But what I do remember is him always being demure about it . What I always gathered from his response was that it was a story that he always want to severalize . So , it ’s very cool that he finally got the chance to tell it . ”
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Tales of the Jedi Episode 5: “Practice Makes Perfect”
The next prison term Ahsoka pop up in Tales of the Jedi , the story is fix early on on in her journeying , around the timeline of the Clone Wars movie and time of year one of the show . For Eckstein , that meant going back to a voice she had n’t had to do for years .
“ I really enjoyed go away back to a 14 - year - old Ahsoka , ” she said . “ It ’s fun to reminisce and go back to those days , and it in reality was quite easy to convert my voice to go back to 14 - year - onetime Ahsoka . It ’s like abuse back into an honest-to-goodness pair of iron heel that you ’ve had for years that you broke in . They ’re comfortable . They just mold to your substructure . And that ’s how it felt . ”
That does n’t entail there was n’t preparation though . “ I did go back and watch The Clone Wars movie and several of the first episodes in season one , ” she sound out . “ So I did heed to my voice back then and it ’s shocking how different it is . Ahsoka has grown up so much and she ’s gone through such an phylogenesis . ”
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That organic evolution is partly because her master copy , Anakin , put her through such acute training . The sequence not only features the voice of Eckstein ’s Clone Wars syndicate ( Matt Lanter , James Arnold Taylor , Dee Bradley Baker ) , all of whom reunited on Zoom , but may hold the keys to multiple mysteries surround the persona . For object lesson , Ahsoka Tano has two lightsabers . Is it because of this ?
“ I think so , ” Eckstein read . “ I actually beat to find out the episodes with my nephew last dark who ’s like a Star Wars expert . And we came to the same conclusion . That she develop the second lightsaber for her training and because of these exercises . ”
Eckstein also find it interesting how this specific exercise of dodging blasts from Clone Troopers would become so , so all-important to the character ’s survival . “ [ Anakin ] was develop her to save her life story , ” she said . “ And I think what was so heartrending to me , having seen it for the first time , was petty did any of them know he was literally ready her to economise her biography against the clones . The very people she was learning from are the very people that she had to scat from later on , which made it so much more heartbreaking . But also that answer our doubt of how could she do that ? How could she elude from the knockoff at the end of season five like she did and then how could she get away from the clones , patently , with ordination 66 ? ”
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Tales of the Jedi Episode 6: “Resolve”
The final sequence of Tales of the Jedi , set shortly before the case of Star Wars Rebels , bring up complex emotions for Eckstein . “ Ahsoka at Padmé ’s funeral , for me , I was sobbing during that aspect as I was recording it , ” she said . “ It was very literal where she says , ‘ She was my booster . ’ I could hear it because I knew what was happening but I was full - out cry during that scene . So . yeah , the emotions were very , very real in that sequence . ”
After the funeral , we encounter Ahsoka hiding as a farmer . Some fan noticed that the story has some very close parallels to the E.K. Johnson Ahsoka novel , but Eckstein says that was never discourse . “ No , we did n’t have any conversation about the novel … but it felt like an filename extension of the novel , ” she said . “ I did n’t even ask Dave if this was before the novel or [ after ] , I just assume this was kind of at the beginning of that chapter . So I definitely sense the parallel . ”
One parallel that ’s missing isKaedan Larte , a cleaning woman who begin to fall for Ahsoka in the Word of God . narrative has a similar reference but has removed the love fib and some(including io9)have criticized the show for ostensibly replacing a odd grapheme . When the subject was brought up , Eckstein could only extract a deep latria for the character .
“ I will say I absolutely make love the character of Kaedan and Miara , her sis , ” she order . “ E.K. Johnson and I actually collaborated on another Christian Bible , From a Certain degree of View , where we together write a chapter and included those characters . But , this is purely my opinion because I did not have any give-and-take about it , I do go for that we eventually get to see Kaedan and Miara because I think E.K. Johnston wrote two unbelievable distaff characters that I hope we ’ll see in the future tense . ”
lastly , as was the suit almost 10 year ago , Eckstein include the last episode of Tales From the Jedi made her sad because , for now , she ’s not sure if this is the last time she ’ll voice the character or not . “ Every time I step into the studio apartment and book Ahsoka I always have so much gratitude and I ’m so grateful to have the opportunity , ” she say . “ I never front at like , ‘ Okay , well , what ’s in front ? ’ And , ‘ Why do n’t we have more ? ’ I do n’t ever look at it that way . I ’m just grateful for what I get to do . But there ’s always a sadness whenever a projection comes to an final stage . And so that instalment , in especial , was , the last one , it was sad . ”
Star war : Tales of the Jedi is now on Disney+ .
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