“Star Wars: Ahsoka” Star Reveals Why She Didn’t Return For Second Season
The next live-action Star Wars series coming to Disney+ is the second season of “Ahsoka”, which is set after the fall of the Empire and follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
During a recent interview, to promote the new Starz series “Spartacus: House of Ashur”, Claudia Black shared some details on why she pulled out of starring in the second season of “Ahsoka” over a dispute over pay. In the first season, Claudia Black played Nightsister Klothow in the show.
Well, I’m going to be transparent. They picked up season two, picked me up with it, and then Disney, which is structuring things differently these days, could not pay me what I needed to be paid as a single mother to keep all my responsibilities going at home in Los Angeles, because they were filming in London. It was not something that they could make happen, and therefore, I had to bow out for season two. It was very sad for me. I sent an email to Dave Filoni thanking him, and I said, “What a ride!”
She also continued to explain why she couldn’t work on the first season due to her relocation to the UK.
When he heard me talking about it, we signed serious NDAs, and when he had me talking about it only took one thing. You would have been the same in the background. He was like, “Are you talking about the Night Sisters? What’s the show?” He heard one little thing, and he was like, “I know exactly who she’s talking about,” so it was fun to go into and do something relatable with him. but very sad to not be able to continue that at the end of the day. They call it “show business” for a reason. It’s like 90 percent business and 10 percent show. They could not, sadly, support a single mom, and I’m very sad about that, but I also understand market forces being what they are, and the very delicate time in the business to even be able to afford to make anything at all. We all had to do our sums and move on.
The first season of “Star Wars: Ahsoka” is available to stream on Disney+. No details have been revealed on when the second season will arrive on Disney+.
Roger’s Take: It’ll be interesting to see if they recast the character or just don’t use the character in the second season. Unfortunately, relocating to London for filming the second season was likely expensive, especially for a small part, especially one that could be recast without most people even noticing.
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