Regardless of attending to mess around in a galaxy far, far-off, Katee Sackhoff took a while to seek out “The Power” once more after showing within the Star Wars franchise.
The actress, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze on The Mandalorian, lately defined how the position “simply broke me” and led to a virtually three-year hiatus from onscreen appearing roles.
“I misplaced all of my confidence after Mandalorian. All of it,” she defined on her podcast The Sackhoff Present. “I’ve at all times performed two steps faraway from myself, in a way. It at all times felt grounded in some a part of my stomach, of who I used to be. Bo-Katan is nowhere close to who I’m as a human being. Her life, what she desires — I didn’t perceive her. As a lot as I understood her, I by no means felt her in my abdomen. I by no means recognized together with her. I didn’t know learn how to discover her.”
Regardless of beforehand voicing the character within the animated sequence Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, Sackhoff’s tenure within the live-action position of Bo-Katan on The Mandalorian from 2020 to 2023 proved to be a tougher enterprise.
“It broke me. It simply broke me,” defined Sackhoff. “I began doubting all the things about myself. I’m not a powerful auditioner on tape, and I used to be having to place myself on tape. I wasn’t reserving something. And for 3 years, I mainly didn’t work, and it simply destroyed my confidence.”
Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze in ‘The Mandalorian’ (Disney+/Lucasfilm)
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Sackhoff has since linked with a brand new supervisor and appearing coach, who has advised her, “‘My aim is to not train you learn how to act. You know the way to behave. I simply must get you again in your stomach. You simply want to seek out your confidence once more.’ That’s it.”
Except for a Legislation & Order episode final yr and the action-comedy Struggle or Flight, Sackhoff has primarily solely executed voice work since her Mandalorian arc, together with reviving the voice of Bo-Katan for a Could 2024 episode of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire.
In June, Sackhoff signed on for Mike Flanagan‘s Amazon MGM sequence adaptation of Stephen King‘s Carrie, becoming a member of the forged in an undisclosed position after working with the horror auteur on 2013’s Oculus.
“I belief Mike,” stated Sackhoff on her podcast. “I’ve relinquished management and I belief Mike, ’trigger I’ve labored with him earlier than and I do know he’s wonderful. I don’t know if I belief myself but.”
