Reports indicate that Eman Esfandi, The Inspection and King Richard, has been cast as live-action Ezra Bridger in the upcoming Ahsoka Disney+ Star Wars series, alongside Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano) and Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Sabine Wren).
Eman Esfandi (The Inspection, King Richard) is Ezra Bridger in Star Wars: Ahsoka. For a while, Mena Massoud was rumored to be playing the part, but it seems that never came to be. Instead, Esfandi will be picking up the role from Taylor Gray, who voiced the Jedi freedom fighter in Star Wars Rebels.
Bridger is set to make his live-action debut in Ahsoka (which is currently filming). At the end of Star Wars Rebels, the character “sacrificed” himself in order to stop Thrawn, with the final scene being Ahsoka picking up Sabine on the planet Lothal in order to go and find him. It’s a plot point that’s already been alluded to in live-action thanks to The Mandalorian‘s second season, but will come into focus in the new series.
You know the drill, until we get confirmation from Disney and/or Lucasfilm this is just a rumour. We hope to get an update on the series, and perhaps confirmation of this casting, at this weekend’s D23 Expo in Anaheim.
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