She broke the news in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Friday, also confirming previous reports that longtime Star Wars composer John Williams will provide the new show’s main title theme.Holt teased that Williams’ past work on the Star Wars franchise will serve as “tentpoles” for her own—and that she will look to bring her own “new and fresh” interpretation of Star Wars music to the series, via elements she can’t yet reveal.“It’s been glorious, working with my hero,” she said with reference to Williams, “and also bringing my own voice to the show.”Holt also shared that Williams’ as-yet-unheard theme is “reflective” and “just entirely appropriate” for the series.“It distills what the show is about in just the perfect way that John Williams can,” she continued. “It’s wistful, but there’s an element of hope to it.

It’s doing something new and I think people are going to be really blown away by it.”Holt also explained in the course of the interview that Williams’ first move into the world of Star Wars TV resulted from his desire to craft a theme for the Jedi Master Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor)—the “only legacy character” he hadn’t yet had a chance to write for, given the fact that he had died “quite early on” when Alec Guinness was portraying him in 1977’s A New Hope.Obi-Wan Kenobi picks up 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) faced his greatest defeat—the downfall of his best friend and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), who went on to become the evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

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