‘Working with Mando’s stunt double and body double it was exciting because Gina was able to do all that action and we could lean into it. That day was all about that brutal fight: Gina and Mando’s stunt double were just destroying each other.
‘And then it gets to Baby sipping his soup and everything else goes away, all these amazing feats of athleticism and martial arts, and all this stuff just becomes Baby with soup and all we wanted to do was a zillion takes of how Baby was going to drink his soup.‘Would he drink it with one hand? With two hands? Sipping it a lot? Sipping it a little bit?’She added was he going to do a ‘baby sip, a hearty sip’ but did admit ‘he wins every scene he’s in’.
While through all the Star Wars movies, from episode one right through to his death in Return of The Jedi, Yoda has been inching towards his 1000th birthday, the first episode of The Mandalorian introduced us to a baby resembling the ancient Jedi master who immediately became the star of the show.