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SWITCHING SIDES

to play in terms of guilt, concern, and loyalty. 06
Christopher Sean says Kaz’s growth this season

revolves around finding his friend, and perhaps

getting her to come back to fight the good fi ght.
“He doesn’t want to give up on family, and
he considers Team Fireball family,” Sean says.
“And he never wants to give up on Tam. There’s
frustration in the fact that she is not listening.
She’s making emotional decisions, and he feels
like if she would just listen to him then none of
this would be happening. We could all be happy.”
Of course, Kaz has made plenty of decisions
based on his emotions in the past that have
caused endless trouble for his friends, and Sean
intimates that his character
will see that irony as he
continues to grow this “When we realized Tam
season. “Essentially, the fi rst
season was Kaz learning was going to join the
to be selfless, stop being

selfish, and understand that First Order, we didn’t

there are consequences to
your actions. And now he’s want it to happen, but we
watching Tam going the knew it had to happen.”
other way, from selfl ess to
selfish, and having to deal Justin Ridge, supervising director

with what happens because and executive producer
of that.”
Continuity Connections 07
Because the timeline of Star Wars Resistance
intertwines with events in The Last Jedi and
onwards into those of The Rise of Skywalker, the
writers found themselves in the unique position
of having to create a show that worked within
the narrative of the cinematic output of movie
directors Rian Johnson and J.J. Abrams. Portillo
explains they were kept in the loop of both
movies during writers’ conferences, which took
place a year in advance of each fi lm’s release.
“We have a roadmap that was set up,” explains
Portillo, “And we have continuity reviews with
the Lucasfilm story group to make sure that we

maintain continuity, and that our stories stay
within what the stories are so that we don’t stray 08
beyond what J.J. is expecting, or what Dave Filoni
is expecting. In any event, we can always change
episode dialogue up to the last minute.”
Another by-product of having their stories
aligned so closely with those of the movies was
the voice cast were able to work with some of
their big screen counterparts, like Oscar Isaac,
who reprises his Poe Dameron role for Resistance.
Christopher Sean recalls one of his favorite
memories on Resistance was getting the call to
head to New York City to record a voice session
with Isaac for the episodes in which their
characters cross paths. “I spoke to my agent who
said Oscar was going to get me tickets to watch

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