Rosario Dawson, Hayden Christensen, & Dave Filoni’s favorite STAR WARS moments

Rosario Dawson, Hayden Christensen, & Dave Filoni’s favorite STAR WARS moments

I think all of us included and everybody that enjoys this show you know we all grew up with Star Wars and it all touched us at different times and it’s often like very formative and like you know I think back to my youth and I think back to seeing Jedi when I was seven and having that Goosebump emotional moment where like you know Luke says I’m you know has that confrontation with Darth right and and I’m near tears as a seven-year-old and I’m not even sure why and I’m curious like if we can go around i’ just be be curious to hear like what that Star Wars moment is for you that jumps out like the most emotional Star Wars Goosebumps on the arm moment is for you going back into the history of the series Dave let’s start with you it it depends I mean I would say there’s a there are different moments for different ways you want to feel I think one of the most relatable moments is probably just this image of Luke staring at the Suns wondering what he’s doing with his life and I think that that’s something that almost everyone can relate to at some point you know if there’s a bright center of the universe you live in the place that’s farthest from you know that’s that’s something that we all understand because we always feel like we’re missing out and so much of Star Wars is about growing up and coming into your own and finding responsibility it’s it’s exactly the same just drawn in a different way than than George’s work in American Graffiti you know the the images of that small town and breaking away from your peer group and saying no I want to do something different I’m going to go out on the world you know it’s the same type of Adventure and so I think that George used to say Star Wars is him telling very old stories in a very new way and now that it’s become this massive franchise you can get lost in all those details and all that information and all the lore but at the heart of it you know for all of us it’s our struggle against you know being a good person or a bad person person you know making better choices than not giving into our fears giving into our frustrations our anger and that’s why these stories are so relatable and you can find so many moments you know you can relate to the I love you I know moment a because it’s brilliant but B Because who hasn’t you know felt something for a person then you just can’t find the words you just until it’s too late you know and and and it so it’s you’re in this fantastic setting of Star Wars but you’re finding these moments you’re experiencing these moments that’s probably you just had at the mall across the street before you went into the theater I come from an air when malls were a thing so kids don’t referencing not Darth Mall not Darth Mall don’t go to that mall the mall where the arcade was in and all that anyway so yeah I would say Luke and twin Suns without taking more of your time no no I want to hear all of it but it’s it’s exactly what you say right because like the icing on the cake is of course the battles and the lightsabers and the Jedi it just happens there’s a lot of damn icing in St Wars to enjoy but Underneath It All Is That Emotion does anything jump out for you I mean it’s it’s such an interesting you know you guys are part of this universe but I’m sure you still retain that that love because you first were a fan before you were a part of it yeah yeah for me um I think probably the first time I watched Star Wars and and and sort of the opening shot of C3PO and R2-D2 you know walking across the desert and having this conversation and and just these two robots that we were supposed to sort of emotionally invest in um was just s new for me um and then I think seeing Darth Vader for the first time and trying to figure out who he was that was a big thing for me and just the mystery around this character and trying to was he a robot too or is that a man underneath there and and um and it just sort of really captured my imagination in a way that that nothing else really had prior to that point I mean the the ears on the couch that could have spawned for you the fact that you ended up being that guy pondering who was underneath the yes something very very serendipitous there or fortuitous yeah totally RAR I love you I know moment as well and one of the things I always quote all the time is there is no try only do which you know I think is actually really helpful for me sometimes when I’m trying to make a decision um and to bring action to it you know and not get too lost because I can overthink things a lot um but I I you know one of the things that I love so much and being able to see how it’s kind of connect been connective tissue through the animation through the show with Obi-Wan and through the films is you know that moment of breaking through that armor of Darth Vaders and being able to see his face and one of the things that I loved so much about that you get to see Ahsoka break one side you get to see Obi-Wan break another um but it’s Luke that really kind of really breaks through to him and I think for me that’s probably the thing I go to the most because the thing I love so much about Star Wars is the fact that um there’s it’s how complicated it is to be a Jedi and how confronted they regularly are and challenged they are every single day and it’s not um a childish of like the good guy and the bad guy in the corner like spinning his mustache and and just being blanket evil it’s about that you’re constantly being pulled and maybe compelled to fall into your anger your despair whatever it is and have to pull yourself back and be disciplined and I think that that moment of being able to see Luke with his father and see him and his father finally really be able to see him as well and despite how terrible he is with with young Lings and and Beyond and and how how how violent and abusive and terrible he became he was still able to be seen and be able to reach that light again and and that’s a character that you could so formidable you could imagine is beyond you know ever being reached and yet he was and he was given that opportunity actually to turn and and make a different choice and that’s ultimately how how long long had it been since he’d actually really been properly pushed to say think again about it like you can be something different than what you’d been before and I love how we call that back again in Ahsoka as she’s been despairing and still feeling guilty maybe about her choice to be to leave the Jedi and what that could have complicated for him and his dark choices that he made later and him challenging her is like is that all that I am and you have to see the wholeness of me and and I think allows her to see the wholeness of herself and I think that’s why this story has lived on generationally is because it is something we can all really relate to it makes it very real and not Fantastical in fantasy it’s actually very grounded and and really quite beautiful it’s a it’s a really important lesson I think

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