Star Wars: You Missed This Luke Skywalker Easter Egg In ‘Book Of Boba Fett’
In the latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett titled "Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian," the series took a detour from the life of its titular bounty hunter-turned-crime lord. Instead, the spotlight was on the life of Din Djarin after leaving the Force-sensitive foundling Grogu to be trained by Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi. The episode ended with a sequence in which he tested out his new ship, an N-1 Naboo starfighter that Peli Motto found. The ship was incredibly fast and allowed Din to maneuver more precisely than he could with the Razor Crest. However, his flying also attracted the attention of a pair of X-wing pilots patrolling the area for the New Republic. Does this particular New Republic X-wing pilot look familiar to you? If so, you must have good eyes.
One of the pilots was Captain Carson Teva, another recurring character from season 2 of The Mandalorian. The other pilot was a new face who attempted to write up Din for speeding before he escaped and was ultimately let go by the pilots. If the pilot in question looked vaguely familiar to you, that was probably because he was played by none other than Max Lloyd-Jones. He was Luke Skywalker’s body double in The Mandalorian Season 2 finale “Chapter 16: The Rescue.” This particular The Book of Boba Fett episode marked Jones' first official role in Star Wars in which his face was not covered by a deepfake and computer-generated enhancements. He definitely looked the part of an X-wing pilot and played the role of the straight man to Teva's more casual persona fairly effectively, though he did loosen up by the end of the scene.
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Star Wars has a history of getting their major actors to also make cameos and minor, blink-and-you-miss-it background appearances. Among the numerous examples of this was Darth Maul's onscreen actor Ray Park also playing one of the Queen of Naboo's royal guards in The Phantom Menace. There was also Wicket the Ewok's actor Warwick Davis playing a background character named Weazel in the same film. He would later appear as one of Enfys Nest's Cloud Riders in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The most recent example of this in Star Wars films was a subtle cameo from none other than John Williams himself in The Rise of Skywalker.
The Star Wars franchise knows how to have fun with itself and the sporadic cameos from its most well-known faces are great examples of this. The fact that their actors can play so many small roles shows just how ranged they are and how creative the franchise can be in turning them into such different characters. By this point, I know to keep my eyes peeled whenever I am watching a Star Wars movie, series, or video game. You never know who might show up and what kind of role they might be playing. With the vast size of the galaxy far, far away, the possibilities are quite literally infinite.
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Source(s): CBR