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Spoilers ahead for episode five ofThe Acolyte.
Seeing you playing another badass girl with spiky parts felt very natural.
Theyre such different characters, but it’s possible for you to find their humanity.
Theyre both almost orphaned.
It was interesting to figure out how to act with a completely new face.
Wookieepedia says Jecki is half-human.
How much of her backstory and origin did you know?
We talked about it a lot.
That speaks to some of the bad-faith criticism of this show.
WithinStar Warshistory, weve seen it so many times.
Did you play her as a child, or an adult with her own agency?
I think thats what Sol meant by that.
She hadnt had a lot of life experience outside of the Jedi temple.
Especially for someone as grown-up as Sol is, 18 years old is a child.
And to Qimir, she was a child.
You said in another interview that youd played Jecki as though she had a crush on Osha.
Can you elaborate on that?
Jecki has lived in the Jedi temple and hasnt had outside real-life experiences.
She finds Osha so fascinating, and shes kind of in awe of her.
Then add the layer of her having also been Sols Padawan:Am I jealous of her?
Do I want to be like her?
It felt like an innocent little crush.
Its so rare to find a director and writer who will go there.
Its so bold of Leslye to have created these wonderful, full characters that she then just kills off.
It feels so real unfair, sudden.
It raises the stakes.
And you want stakes.
You want danger in something likeStar Wars.
Its not Look how scary this bad guy is, but hes not going to kill anyone.
Its good to take the high road.
But morally I agree with not killing someone who has killed, because then youre a killer, too.
I couldnt help but notice that Sol just leaves your body behind.
We had a whole day of just lying on the ground, which was really funny.
He had such bigger fish to fry.
How do you look at Jeckis story?
Is it a tragedy, in that her life was cut down so quickly?
Jeckis death is completely symbolic and moves the story so far forward.
It gives the characters motivation to keep fighting, and so does Yords death.
And in a really beautiful way, Jecki dies as a Jedi knight.
She made it to knight.
She was on a mission; she died fighting a noble cause, fighting a Sith.
She had that happen to her.
Did you get to choose the lightsaber color for her?
What would you pick?No, man, we all got given our colors.
We all asked for colors, and no one listened to us.
I think everyone would say they want purple, but I loved the green, like Jecki had.
It feels right with my energy and feels right with Jeckis energy.
But I would like to have two sabers, for sure.
