Movies - TV
Playing Live-Action Ahsoka Made Rosario Dawson Revamp Her Entire Lifestyle
By SANDY SCHAEFER
Ahsoka Tano hasn’t had an easy journey since leaving the Jedi Order in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a fact that Rosario Dawson took to heart while preparing to play the character.
Dawson shared that she trained “two hours a day, seven days a week” leading up to the show’s production, then spent as many as “seven to 12 hours” filming fight scenes some days.
She added, “But I loved that because that’s who Ahsoka is. It’s her! Every fiber of her being is on the line at every given moment, so it felt really good to have that strength.”
Another challenge was getting into the character’s mindset. Dawson explained, “Ahsoka is not some character I can just play and then dismiss when I take off the head montrals.”
“It’s been a lifestyle shift in connecting to her and performing her. She’s in me,” said Dawson. For her, playing Ahsoka was an “amazing mental, emotional, physical experience.”