'I think that the problem with Tales of the Jedi is that it opened up more questions than we have answers to. 'It was really, really interesting to see Ahsoka's backstory as a baby and to see everyone in her town,' Eckstein said when speaking with Gizmodo. Johnston's Star Wars: Ahsoka Is Essential Reading For Ahsoka Tano Fans But it also involved seeing her as an infant, which was certainly a bold choice. When not dealing with the origin story for Palpatine's eventual apprentice Count Dooku, the show offered more context into Ahsoka's upbringing as well as her relationship with her former master, Anakin Skywalker. While Ahsoka wasn't the only one whose story was told through the bite-sized episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, she did play a major role in it as her episodes offered new insight into her time both in and out of the Jedi Order. Eckstein has been playing the Togruta Jedi for nearly 2 decades at this point, so her viewpoint is certainly one worth hearing. Star Wars only exacerbated fan frustrations when another famous voice actor from the animated series (namely Katee Sackhoff's Bo-Katan Kryze) got to play the live-action version as well, while Ming-Na Wen got to take her new assassin character Fennec Shand from live-action ( The Mandalorian) into an animated vocal role ( The Bad Batch).Ashley Eckstein, the long-time voice of Ahsoka Tano, recently came back to play the role again in the Disney Plus series Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, and now she's got an insider's perspective on the character's journey.

There's been a lot that's been made about Rosario Dawson taking over the Ahsoka role in live-action hardcore fans of Star Wars animation have campaigned for years for Ashley Eckstein to be given the chance to play Ahsoka in live-action performance, not just vocal performance. Dawson's Ahsoka is set for a larger role in the Star Wars franchise, including appearances in projects like The Book of Boba Fett and her own Ahsoka series, which is currently in production. Ahsoka only appeared onscreen as an animated character in various series ( Clone Wars, Rebels) until 2020, when actress Rosario Dawson played a live-action Ahsoka in The Mandalorian Season 2. Star Wars' Ahsoka Tano has grown into a major franchise icon since her debut in the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008.

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