Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano, has finally met Rosario Dawson, who plays the much loved character in live-action, on the set of the upcoming Disney+ Ashoka series, but Eckstein was quick to state that it was just a set visit and she has not filmed a cameo.
“She was just lovely. We just really hit it off, which I knew we would,” Eckstein told EW’s Dagobah Dispatch podcast about meeting Dawson for the first time.
“I’ve been waiting to meet her for three years, and I was so excited,” the actress recalled a few days before her new Ahsoka project, Tales of the Jediwas released on Disney+. “It was such an incredible moment.”
As to whether her visit included a cameo appearance similar to the one her Clone Wars costar Matt Lanter had in season 1 of The Mandalorian, Eckstein said: “I don’t wanna start a rumor. People are like, ‘She’s on the set. She played a character.’ No, it was just a set visit. So I have not filmed a cameo for the Ahsoka series.” But she does hope for one if the show gets a second season. “I talk about throwing your dreams out into the universe, so it would be a dream come true if I got to do a cameo, because my background is in live action.”
When asked about putting Ahsoka’s boots back on for Tales of the Jedi after originating the character for the 2008 Clone Wars film and playing her throughout the long-delayed final season of the series in 2020, Eckstein said, “It was just incredible. You know, I never take anything for granted. Every single time I finish a project, I never think, ‘Okay, well, what’s the next one?’ I just look at it with gratitude and I’m just so happy that I still get to voice Ahsoka all these years later.”
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