‘The Acolyte’ Cast Couldn’t Stop Playing With Lightsabers ‘All Day, Every Day’: ‘There Are Some Walls That Got Dented’
variety.comJack Dunn It took about 240 hours of training to turn “The Acolyte” actress like Danfe Keen into a certified Jedi master. That meant 240 hours of lightsaber practice, force training, stunt work and movement coaching from a dedicated team of instructors at Lucasfilm.
But according to Keen, the most “surreal” part of her regiment was the “force meetings,” where every force user in “The Acolyte” would sit in a quiet room and discuss the mysterious space magic with an expert “Star Wars” advisor. “You ask questions about the force to this all-knowing man called Pablo [Hidlago], who has been working at Lucasfilm for decades,” Keen explained Thursday at “The Acolyte” premiere in Los Angeles. “And anytime you had a doubt, you’d be like, ‘I need to talk to Pablo.'” Although Hidalgo was absent, Keen and the rest of her Jedi trainees celebrated the release of Disney’s newest Star Wars saga “The Acolyte” at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Thursday night. “The Acolyte” is set in the “High Republic Era.” The series follows Jedi master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) as he tracks down a deadly force-wielding assassin known as the Acolyte (Amandla Stenberg).
Joining the rank of Jedi with Jung-jae is Charlie Barnett, who made sure to find time for fun among all the rigorous preparation.
He said that he and his co-stars played Jedi off-set with their prop lightsabers “all day, every day.” “You know, there are some walls that got dented I’m not going to lie,” Barnett joked.
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