AhsokaDirector Peter Ramsey Talks About Setting Up Anakin’s Big Arrival

Ahsoka ’s metaphysical step into the stranger in the culmination of last hebdomad ’s episode,“Fallen Jedi,”paved the way of life for the first really grown bit of the series so far — a doomed encounterbetweenAhsoka Tanoand her former Jedi Master , Anakin Skywalker . But to find the ripe balance of such a moment , manager Peter Ramsey pushed his guest star to a personal position .

Speaking toIGNabout the moment , Ramsey discussed what it was like having Hayden Christensen — already on the senior high school of his prior return in Obi - Wan Kenobi — back as Anakin for Ahsoka . “ He ’s a really odoriferous , low - key guy , ” Ramsey told IGN of the player ’s return . “ He was pretty felicitous about being there after all this time . It had a fortune of meaning for him . ”

That joyousness extended as to how Ramsey and Christensen dialed in Anakin ’s emotion for go through Ahsoka after so long — with Ramsey pushing Christensen to see Ahsoka as if it was the doer ’s own daughter . “ “ We just talked about what it ’s like for him to be seeing Ahsoka after all this time , that it ’s a reunion for them , ” the director said . “ And I just enjoin him , ‘ it ’s like you have n’t seen your girl in two age . She ’d gone off to college and you ’re seeing her again and she ’s like a different person but still your daughter . ’ ”

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What ’s interesting beyond Ramsey ’s insight is that , while the manager himself does n’t explicitly observe this one direction or the other , IGN ’s small-arm describes this version of Anakin as being “ one before the events of Revenge of the Sith . ” Ever since “ Fallen Jedi ” dropped there ’s been a fate of treatment of just when this Anakin is actually from , present that theWorld Between Worldsis a Force nexus between periods of metre , and not necessarily a quasi - afterlife . Is ithis ransom spiritafter the terminal of Return of the Jedi ? Is it more than just that this Anakin appears visually as he does head into the event of Revenge of the Sith , or could it perhaps be as IGN suggests , that this indeed is an Anakin out of time , from the gunpoint before his crepuscle to the Dark Side ?

We do n’t have too much longer to find out , at least — a unexampled episode ofAhsokahits Disney+ tonight , at 6 p.m PT .

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