After years of voicing the animated version of Bo-Katan, Sackhoff admitted she had a hard time with the live-action role on Disney+: “It crushed my confidence.” More like Boo-Katan.
Disney+’s The Mandalorian became quite inconsistent as the series went on (Grogu is sent away to train with Luke Skywalker. Wait—no, he’s not).
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But one character in the Star Wars series apparently had a serious mental impact on former Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff. She first showed up late in season two as the Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze and got a much bigger part in season three. Sackhoff had voiced the character for years in Star Wars animated shows like The Clone Wars and Rebels. But she says she really struggled with bringing the character to life in the live-action version.
I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian — all of it. My style of acting has always just been [that] your first instinct is the right instinct. Do that. Play the reality of the situation. And I’ve never really played a character. I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. [My characters] always felt grounded in some part of my belly of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants — like, I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her. Very Scary. It broke me. It just broke me, where I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work. And it just destroyed my confidence. I broke down and was like crying … I’m not OK, man, I’m so broken, I have no confidence left. I’m lost. This is easy for you. You don’t have to try. Stop trying so hard.’ And I lost it at him one day and started screaming: ‘You’ve told me my entire life this is easy for me and it’s not fucking easy and now I’m falling apart.
Sackhoff said on her YouTube channel, then She said she clashed with her former manager over the issue, after the manager told her, Sackhoff said she got a new manager and enlisted the help of an acting coach to help her find confidence
You know what I would do differently? I think I was so scared that I was going to fuck up that as soon as I delivered the take I wanted to deliver, that’s what I gave them. Up until that point in my career, I’d give four different takes and think they’d find it in post. I would change it and do something different every time and had fun with it. I tried so desperately to be so controlled.
she added later about the Mando role, That said, she doesn’t know if she would have changed her performance.
The next Mandalorian project is the upcoming movie The Mandalorian & Grogu, set to release next May, but it’s not clear if Sackhoff’s character will be in it.
Sackhoff’s next role is a recurring part in the newest adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic Carrie — this time from frequent King collaborator Mike Flanagan, who is turning Carrie into an eight-episode limited series for Amazon Prime. Sackhoff said in the video that she feels better working on Carrie “because I trust Mike … he’s amazing.”
Source: Hollywood Reporter