First Look at Rory McCann as Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka Revealed at Star Wars Celebration

Star Wars Celebration has fixed america our archetypal look astatine Rory McCann arsenic Baylan Skoll successful Season 2 of Ahsoka. For those unfamiliar, McCann is taking implicit arsenic Baylan pursuing the decease of Ray Stevenson.

While we person yet to spot McCann successful action, the Ahsoka sheet astatine Star Wars Celebration gave america a first-look representation that you tin spot below.

Stevenson, who was besides known for his enactment successful Thor, RRR, Punisher: War Zone, Rome, and more, passed distant from a little unwellness 3 months earlier the premiere of Ahsoka. For many, Stevenson's portrayal of Baylan was the series' precocious constituent truthful far.

Ahsoka bid creator Dave Filoni shared that losing Ray was evidently 1 of the biggest challenges successful processing Season 2, particularly since helium was "the astir beauteous idiosyncratic connected surface and off."

Filoni and the squad shared a spot much astir what we tin expect from Season 2, including that Hayden Christensen volition instrumentality arsenic Anakin Skywalker alongside Admiral Ackbar, Zeb, Chopper, and more.

In our reappraisal of Ahsoka's archetypal season, we said it "struggles successful its aboriginal episodes arsenic the bid works to get viewers up to velocity connected characters and concepts introduced successful Dave Filoni’s animated Star Wars shows. But erstwhile the actors and cosmic plots are truly fixed clip to shine, Ahsoka finds a fantastic premix of affluent lore, humor, and large battles that marque it consciousness similar classical Star Wars portion besides forging a way to thing new."

For more, cheque retired wherever Ahsoka ranks connected our database of the champion Star Wars Disney+ live-action TV shows and our explainer of the ending of Season 1 of Ahsoka.

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