Over at StarWars.com, Dan Brooks has been speaking to Nike Futterman about her return to Star Wars as Asajj Ventress in The Bad Batch.
There was unfinished business for Nika Futterman. As the voice of Asajj Ventress, the Sith assassin serving Count Dooku, she played one of the most important — and well-liked among fans — characters of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. A dual-lightsaber-wielding menace, Ventress held her own against Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano, before leaving the bad guys behind for free agency. But just as Asajj’s journey was taking a surprising turn, it all stopped when the series was cancelled.
“I thought we had gotten to a place in her story where it was going to continue on in this really interesting way,” Futterman tells StarWars.com. “I just thought, now that she’s going to be a bounty hunter, there’s just a world of possibility that she could be anything and do anything and become anything.”
But the Force works in mysterious ways. Ten years after she last played Ventress in the fifth season of The Clone Wars, which saw bounty hunter Ventress tracking (and then aiding) a fugitive Ahsoka Tano, an email arrived from her agent. Lucasfilm wanted Futterman back as Ventress for Star Wars: The Bad Batch. “It was really surprising and very exciting,” she says. “She’s fun, interesting, and multi-layered. She’s all these things that I wanted to continue on doing. So, of course, I was like, ‘Yeah, baby! What is next?’”
To read the full interview, head over to StarWars.com.
