These Jedi are different from those who have starred in the Star Wars films thus far. Instead of muted tunics and monk-like vibes, these are the Jedi of their time, decades before the events of the 1999 prequel “The Phantom Menace.” They wear bright yellow tunics and large, thick leather belts while sporting green, yellow, blue, and orange lightsabers. At the same time, they belong to the same visual and narrative lineage as the ancient Jedis played by Mark Hamill, Liam Neeson, Daisy Ridley and Sir Alec Guinness.
Add Keen and Barnett to this cosmic club. Keen, 19, is not new to big-budget genre productions, having starred in the highly acclaimed X-Men spinoff film “Logan” and starred in the hit fantasy series “His Dark Materials “. Barnett, 36, is well known for his role as Alan Zaveri on “Russian Doll,” the Netflix series co-created by “The Acolyte” creator Leslye Headland. They are confident Jedi – not outcasts searching for their place in the universe, but dedicated warriors who assume their order will survive forever.
How do you become a space knight? How does it feel to put on the robe and don the lightsaber? What’s on a Jedi’s playlist? Keen and Barnett recently discussed the making of “The Acolyte.”
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
What’s it like playing a Jedi? What is it like to take on this role?
Charlie Barnett: It is an honor. Just a blanket of honor.
Dafne Keen: It was huge, like such a huge thing.
Barnett: Almost all of our fathers brought it to us or showed it to us. That’s what makes it an honor: living up to my father’s dream of becoming a Jedi. It is rare to have such an opportunity.
What is it like to wear the robes and become a Padawan or Master?
Barnett: I wanted the braid more than the dresses. I was like, man, I’m not a Padawan and I’m losing my braid.
Keen: I was pretty happy with my braid. I loved my dresses.
Barnett: I’m sure any fan who has put on a dress and tried to swing any type of lightsaber knows it’s difficult.
Keen: The sword gets stuck there. You might trip over the bathrobe. It’s not graceful.
Barnett: I’m also incredibly claustrophobic. I don’t know if everyone knows this, but it’s like four layers of wool that we wear on a cinched belt..
Keen: It’s like hard leather.
Barnett: And then throw a dress on top. And my dress weighed, I think, 14 pounds or something. It felt like ridiculously heavy wool. I would panic. I was like, “I don’t know if I can breathe.” “It’s just weird little details that you don’t really think about, but, you know, I’m going to wear whatever they want me to wear as a Jedi.
Keen: Do you want me to carry a trash bag? I’m going to work this trash bag like it’s Armani Privé. I’m going to work on it.
The dresses weighing 14 pounds of wool, they must keep the sets pretty cold?
Barnett: When you’re in the middle of Wales in a snowstorm, you’re like, “I like that costume.” Bright!’
Keen: Without giving too much away, I take my dress off at one point because I’m struggling. And then I wanted to shoot myself because it was freezing. It’s not that they kept it cold. Everything is practical. We were in a freezing forest, which was a soundstage, but it was a freezing forest.
OK, so Dafne, do you have a green lightsaber?
And Charlie, is yours yellow?
Barnett: Yes, and they give it to us. First I was given green, then they said, “No, no, no, no, no.” You’re yellow, sorry.
Keen: They gave it to me. It’s purely aesthetic.
Barnett: Totally aesthetic. It kind of broke my heart. Because I’m fighting specific people, they were like, “We don’t want the same colors to hit.” » You know what I’m saying?
Keen: But if were In a fight together, if we both had green, it would be weird.
Barnett: But we will never fight. We love ourselves.
Keen: I said together, not each other.
Barnett: Just fighting alongside each other.
Keen: Why are you making this weird?
Well, this all stems from my original question: did you have any say in the colors of your lightsaber? But it seems like it was just, “You’re yellow, you’re green.”
Barnett: After doing some research to see if it was canon, I was really happy to have yellow because, learning what people think of that (color), it’s the balance between you have a little bit of strength to exercise, you are really good. sword bearer. I love this idea for him.
Keen: I was very happy with the green. It’s really cool.
How do you convince yourself as an actor that you are in the Star Wars galaxy?
Keen: It’s very personal for each actor. For me, I come from a creative family of theater people. I’m someone who likes to build on character arcs, their development, their history and their origins. I’m someone who likes to build a backstory. I had a little notebook where I wrote all my notes about the Jedi and the Force and her life, and when she joined the Jedi Order and who her parents were. I also had a little Jecki playlist.
Keen: It was “Alice” from “Bodies Bodies Bodies”. It was a lot of David Bowie. It was “Space Oddity”, “Starman”. She is cool. She has cool music.
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