Mary Elizabeth Winstead is about to find a different momentum in her career. The actress has joined the budding cast of Ahsoka, the next Star Wars live-action series set to go into production on Lucasfilm and Disney+. Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, a popular and fan-favorite character on the animated side of Star Wars, who made her debut in season two of The Mandalorian.
Set five years after the events of Return of the Jedi, Hayden Christensen reprises his role as Anakin Skywalker for the series, which is planned to include Ukrainian actress Ivanna Sakhno and Australian theater actor Natasha Liu Bordizzo. Script details and Winstead’s character information remain confidential as of yet.
Star Wars showrunner Dave Filoni is writing the script and producing with Jon Favreau. Production begins this spring in California. Winstead was in action mode at this stage of his career. She was last seen in Netflix’s 2021 revenge thriller Kate, and before that, she wore Hunter’s boots for the 2019 DC movie Birds of Prey. He also co-starred with Will Smith in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man.
Actress, from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof to Live Free or Die Hard, Scott Pilgrim vs. He has always been a fixture in the genre, with performances ranging from the World to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Also; He starred opposite John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane and was part of one of the seasons of Fargo.
