Katee Sackhoff Explains Why ‘The Mandalorian' Episodes Are So Short
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Actress Katee Sackhoff, known for her roles in Battlestar Galactica (2004 - 09) and as Bo-Katan Kryze in Star Wars: Rebels and The Mandalorian, recently talked about what goes behind the scenes of the latter. She defended the production crew and the duration of the episodes. Sackhoff, who runs a podcast called Blah Blah Blah, invited famous actress and upcoming director Bryce Dallas Howard. Both shared their experiences in Hollywood, their careers, and how it was working on The Mandalorian.
While talking about her time playing the role of Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), Bryce mentioned the sheer amount of work that goes on behind the scenes. Not only do directors, producers, and writers make things work, but also other artists and special effects specialists. Bryce mentions that
“It’s so fun to get to be a part of stories like [‘Spider-Man’], because it’s very meaningful to people, right? But also because it requires so many people to achieve it, right? And the kind of… animatronics, the mix of visual effects, practical effects, cinema, performance, and so many different kinds of people need to come together in order for it to work. Because like… engineers, and artists, and it’s really, really, really amazing when it does all work.”
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Sackhoff doubles down on this, highlighting the effort put into the episodes. This comes as an answer to part of the Star Wars fan base that heavily criticized how long (or this case, short) some of the episodes were throughout the three seasons:
“And it works. That’s why I tell people that ‘Mando’ is like… They’re always so confused why it takes so long for us to shoot and why the episodes are, in their minds, so short. And I’m like, ‘There are so many moving parts to this that you have no idea. We were lucky that we finished as fast as we did. we were rushed all the time and the fact that we finished is crazy.”
This has been a recurring issue since the first season. While the first episode is well over fifty minutes long, the following is much shorter, around half an hour. This problem has happened on a few occasions, sometimes cutting the action and plot short of what it should have been. Content consistency is not the only thing that must be considered. The duration and how episodes are distributed should be put as one of the priorities for production crews all over Hollywood.
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