Actress Vanessa Marshall, who broke into the Star Wars family in a huge way with the outstanding voice work she provided for Hera Syndulla in Star Wars Rebels, recently sat down with /Film to talk about reprising this role in the new Disney+ animated series The Bad Batch. This past week’s episode “Devil’s Deal” introduces us to a younger Hera (along with an accompanying character poster) before she becomes the ace pilot of The Ghost that we see in Rebels.
Vanessa Marshall has been a part of the Star Wars family for a long time now. As the voice of Hera Syndulla, she burst onto the scene with Star Wars Rebels and the character keeps making appearances. She featured prominently in the short lived Forces of Destiny cartoon, she has appeared in books like A New Dawn and the Alphabet Squadron series, she’s featured in comics and video games. She even made a vocal cameo (though her ship was seen) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. She’s popped up everywhere, so it’s still amazing that it came as a surprise that she popped up in The Bad Batch this last week. There hasn’t been any storytelling during this era of Hera’s life, as a child learning her way in a world dominated by the Empire.
/Film spoke to Marshall about coming back, what the role means to her, and being a Star Wars fan.
