'Wow, How Did I Not Think of That?' The Acolyte Star Carrie-Anne Moss Had No Idea Star Wars Fans Would Get So Upset Over Her Jedi Character's Death in the First Episode

Carrie-Anne Moss has discussed the backlash to her characters’ decease aboriginal connected successful Star Wars Disney+ amusement The Acolyte, insisting she had nary thought it would beryllium a large deal.

Episode 1, Lost / Found, launches consecutive into the enactment arsenic a mysterious assassin (Amandla Stenberg) — aboriginal revealed to beryllium Osha's duplicate sister Mae — enters a barroom to face Moss' Jedi Master Indara. Mae challenges Indara to "attack her" with each her spot and past forces her into a duel. Mae ends up striking Indara down, resulting successful her death, which immoderate fans felt was premature for a surface fable similar Moss.

Series creator Leslye Headland has offered an mentation for the death, insisting it was indispensable for the amusement to propulsion down the gauntlet and item the threats faced by the Jedi.

"From a filmmaker perspective, I conscionable felt similar with the acold open, particularly with a caller story, that you conscionable person to spell hard," Headland explained successful an interrogation with GamesRadar past year. "You person to accidental the Jedi are going to instrumentality immoderate Ls; you're not going to cognize who the bully guys and the atrocious guys are. And it's going to consciousness precise visceral."

"Even if you already cognize it's going to happen, it doesn't person to beryllium a large gotcha moment," she added. "It conscionable has to beryllium a infinitesimal wherever the affectional and the carnal — meaning the fights — melt together. Carrie-Anne, not conscionable being an enactment legend, is besides a phenomenal actress. She was capable to play each those beats wrong the combat arsenic good as, of course, her decease scene."

Still, fans took to societal media arsenic soon arsenic the occurrence was shown to contented their complaints. Some were unhappy with the actor's short-lived appearance, feeling the quality did not get capable surface time. Others criticized her dense inclusion successful promotional materials, lone to beryllium chopped aboriginal on.

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Now, speaking to Business Insider a twelvemonth on, Carrie-Anne Moss revealed she knew her character's destiny erstwhile she signed connected to play Indara, but admitted she underestimated the instrumentality absorption to her death, and, looking back, feels she should person called it.

"The absorption to it from the fans, I benignant of thought, 'Wow, however did I not deliberation of that?'" she said. "I mean, I service the writers and the directors. It didn't transverse my mind. But afterward, erstwhile radical made a large woody astir it. I was like, 'How did I miss that?' I didn't deliberation it would beryllium a large woody astatine all."

Indara does look successful aboriginal episodes of the play successful flashback form, but for galore fans the harm was done. Indeed, Star Wars proprietor Disney canceled The Acolyte aft Season 1, leaving a fig of crippled threads, main among them the melodramatic archetypal quality of Darth Plagueis successful live-action form, dangling, possibly ne'er to beryllium resolved.

Since the cancelation, a fig of actors who appeared successful The Acolyte person said they inactive anticipation for a Season 2. In December, Manny Jacinto, who played Qimir, said Darth Plagueis would person had a bigger relation successful further seasons of The Acolyte, but didn't uncover excessively overmuch due to the fact that "we could travel back."

Sol histrion Lee Jung-Jae said helium was "quite surprised" to perceive it wouldn't get a 2nd season, which Headland was reasoning astir adjacent earlier Season 1 premiered. Others, including Stenberg, person said they weren't shocked by the cancellation, however. "I'm going to beryllium transparent and accidental that it's not a immense daze for me," she said. "I was successful the bubble of my ain reality, but for those who aren't alert there's been a rampage of vitriol that we've faced since the amusement was adjacent announced. When it was inactive conscionable a conception and nary 1 had adjacent seen it."

Mother Aniseya histrion Jodie Turner-Smith raised this contented too, calling retired Disney for not doing capable for the formed who faced waves of racist slander online. "They’ve got to halt doing this happening wherever they don’t accidental thing erstwhile radical are getting f**king dog-piled connected the net with racism and bulls**t," she said. Jacinto is inactive anxious to make much of The Acolyte though, calling Season 2 his life's extremity not agelong aft its cancellation.

The Acolyte earned a 6/10 successful IGN's review. We said: "The Acolyte takes america to an earlier epoch of Star Wars than we’ve seen connected surface with mixed results. Awkward dialog and a tiny scope rob it of immoderate of the series’ signature abstraction magic, but these old-school Jedi are a thrill to ticker successful action."

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