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real circumstances may sound How did you feel when Hera and “For Hera, I make sure I’m very
warm or powerful. Hopefully it Kanan finally confessed their love

has complexity. Whenever I go for for one another? clear on what she wants and

a specific voice rather than going I was intrigued, because up until why she wants it, and through
through a character’s mind, heart, then I think the relationship was
and soul, it ends up sounding somewhat ambiguous. Hera has an that the voice was developed.”
like affectation. So, for Hera, I affection for Kanan, and she always
make sure I’m very clear on what has, but there wasn’t a lot of
she wants and why she wants it, time to profess that love, if you 07 Vanessa because they were building and
Marshall as
and through that the voice was will, given what was going on getting stronger and getting results.
Hera Syndulla
developed. around them. So, it was nice in Star Wars There wasn’t that distraction of

that they finally got a moment Rebels. romance, which, given the stakes,
Do you have a favorite Hera to share that. I think it was a would have been somewhat self-
08 Tiya Sircar
moment, from either Rebels or sort of relief for the character. (Sabine indulgent for Hera. It’s not that the
Forces of Destiny? I know that at the very end Wren) joined stakes got any less when she did
Marshall in
My favorite moment in terms of she regretted waiting so long, several confess her love, it’s that they got
getting to know her was in “Wings but I think there were other Forces of so heated that it was maybe the
Destiny
of the Master,” (Season Two, priorities. Prior to that, she only time she could see it.
episodes.
Episode Seven) where she gets to fl y always had to handle what was I don’t know that it was a
the B-wing, and we learn why fl ight in front of her, but I think she 09 Hera gets secret to Kanan necessarily. I think
help from
is so important to her. My father was happy to be able to say it both of them knew they had this
“Chopper
is also a pilot, so fl ying happens when she could. and Friends.” affection, but they just didn’t have
to mean a lot to me, too, and I the time to explore it, given what
understand how much fl ight means It was a big change from how was going on.
to him. So I can really key in to a closely she played things to her
person’s need to be up in the clouds chest in the fi rst season. Were you eager to see how fans
for a little bit and get perspective. I don’t think she was secretive, would react?
Throughout the series, there necessarily, but she was Yeah, and as far as I can tell people
was
Yeah,
were a number of other signifi cant perhaps more focused d seem p
seem pretty thrilled. It was the
moments too. The things that on building the Rebel l culmination of so many people
culmi
happened with her father, and her Alliance. She’s trying rooting for them in that way. I
rootin
experience with Thrawn, which to do her job and think it was really satisfying.
think
helped Hera to realize who her put aside any
true family is, and that she doesn’t personal desires Hera was woozy from being
Hera w
need a Kalikori [a Twi’lek family that she may have tortured by Governor Pryce’s
tort
heirloom passed down through the had in order to interrogation droid at that
generations]. Also, watching Sabine complete something point. How did you feel
really claim her space and take her that was way more about playing those scenes?
I
power. When Hera was devastated important. That I thought it would be fun! I
thought it was a great way to get
after Kanan’s death, I think it may have come off as being thou
s being
to the heart of that scene, because
tching—
meant a lot to her to see Sabine secretive to those watching— to the
it is a
grow in that way. And that was or to Kanan! But I think it was it is a pretty intense, almost violent
ink it was
scene.
working,
satisfying for me to see, too. a strategy, and it was working, scene. But it builds with comedy
which is so Star Wars. I found it which
refresh
refreshing. I’ve read some online
comm
07 comments that said it shouldn’t
have taken a drug to make Hera
have t
tell th
tell the truth, but she happened
to be c
to be caught by the Empire and
so that happened. I think Hera’s
so tha
completely capable of doing
compl
anything she did with or without
anyth
the interrogation drug, and I didn’t
the in
think it necessarily took away from
think
that p
that powerful conversation with
Kanan
Kanan. I thought it brought a kind
of dep
of depth to that scene. If it had
been one note and very serious, it
been o
wouldn’t have been as interesting.
would
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