Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Sabine Wren in the upcoming Disney+ Ahsoka series, spoke to Empire Magazine for the July issue, which features Ahsoka played by Rosario Dawson on the cover, about her obligation to find Ezra Bridger.
When Sabine Wren makes her live-action debut in Ahsoka, played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo, the whereabouts of Ezra Bridger are very much on her mind. “She feels an obligation to him,” Bordizzo tells Empire in the new Ahsoka issue. “When they freed Lothal, she was given this hero status. But she doesn’t feel that she’s earned that because she lost her friend in that whole debacle. She’s just focused on the promise she made to him to find him.” As for the exclusive image above? Rebels fans might notice a pretty striking resemblance to the finale’s epilogue, in live-action form…
For Dave Filoni, creator of both Rebels and now Ahsoka, that very epilogue came with its own purpose. “Even at the time I did the Rebels epilogue, I felt like, ‘If I go forward with this, this has to be challenging in another way,’” he tells Empire. “And the challenge was going to be live-action. I wanted to resolve these things with [Ahsoka], but I wanted to do something new with it.” All signs point to Ahsoka picking up where Rebels left off, then. The search for Ezra Bridger begins now.
Read more in July’s Empire Magazine when it goes on sale on Thursday, June 8th. Become an Empire member to access the digital edition in full on launch day, or pre-order a print copy online now here.
