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in particular. “We got to meet some new people
and discover new things. I’m really proud of that,
and I’m really proud of how our story has grown
since those last few episodes of the fi rst season.
We are cooking with gas. It’s thrilling.”
Christopher Sean continues with equal

enthusiasm, “I am the first Asian-American lead
in the Star Wars franchise. There’s nothing cooler
than representation and diversity. When I was
him perform off-Broadway in Hamlet, so I was 06 The Colossus arrives growing up, I didn’t really have too many role
at D’Qar only to find
really excited,” says Sean. “The next morning, models on television. Now, to have heroes who
the wreckage of
I decide to get to the studio an hour early to Resistance ships. are goofballs like Kaz, who can become mature
be prepped and ready before Oscar, but when I and be heroes in their own setting and their own
07 Tam Ryvora
show up, he’s already there, watching the show lives, people see that and say, ‘Hey, I’m a goofball
(Suzie McGrath)
and sipping tea, and he says, ‘Hey man! Great joins the ranks of and I can potentially not just be the sidekick to
performance! I love the show.’ the First Order. someone else. I can be my own hero, in my own
“We got into the booth and I was nervous,” 08 Supreme Leader life, and I can be the leader for once.’ It’s really
admits Sean. “But, like Poe, Oscar is a great leader. Kylo Ren is voiced cool. I’m very proud of that.”
by Matthew Wood
His acting guided me. So, in turn, I was like, For the producers, they’re still completey
in the series.
‘Okay, I can do this. And I’m going to try and amazed that they were given so much leeway
throw a couple curve balls in there, to see what 09 The Resurgent-class to work so freely in their animated corner of the
Star Destroyer that
he’ll do with it.’ We started playing back and Star Wars galaxy. “I’m proud of the fact that Dave
is home to Tam in
forth, and the chemistry relayed on screen Season Two. Filoni trusted us to create a whole new space that
permeated the booth, which was great.” wasn’t part of the Star Wars lore originally,” says
Portillo. “And also, for the support behind the
The Legacy of Resistance diversity that we have in the show, not just in the
By the end of its run, Star Wars Resistance will character design, but also in our voice actors that
have added forty episodes of original stories bring them to life.”
to the Star Wars pantheon. For its producers “And the fact that we get to see this slice of
and cast, the show has already life,” Auman continues. “Our characters are all
changed their lives, allowing kind of blue-collar types. They don’t start as these
them to officially become part of “I’m proud of our big, epic heroes. None of them are Jedi. They’re

the family that inhabits a galaxy really just trying to survive at the edge of the
far, far away. story, and I’m proud galaxy. And then we get to see the First Order
Suzie McGrath says, “I am so that we got to go into creep in. We’ve never really seen how they take
proud of our story, and I’m proud over, how they convince people that they’re on
that we got to go into uncharted uncharted territory.” the right side, and that everybody else, anyone
territory, into no man’s land,” who disagrees, is wrong. I feel like this is very
she says of this season’s stories Suzie McGrath (Tam Ryvora) important, and very timely.”

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