Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "マンダロリアン (スター・ウォーズのキャラクター)" in Japanese language version.
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The Mandalorian is a character I would say built on these icons of film history that we find in some Akira Kurosawa samurai movies, Sergio Leone cowboy westerns, spaghetti westerns, the lonely guy who won't tell you his name, in this case won't show you his face, and a lot of moral ambiguity, and I would say expressed more so in this series and with all of our characters, you know, I think the moral universe of Star Wars can be very specific and kind of black and white, there's good and there's evil, and in this one we start to play with the boundaries of that more, and that is dealt with very interestingly with this character. He's not your typical hero.
The moment I put on the helmet it was a big geek-out, big, big geek-out moment.
When I met Jon Favreau for this project, he asked me if I was a fan of Star Wars, and I told him that I didn't have a choice because I was born in 1975. And so I saw these movies in a movie theater and they shaped my imagination. Empire is most indelibly marked in my memory and my childhood imagination.
The Mandalorian is, I think, in some ways like every other character in The Mandalorian. There is something about him that's very selfish and self-centered but there's also something about him that's very altruistic and human. There's a humanity to him.
Pedro, he said something earlier to me, he said, 'I play my characters how I feel sometimes.' In all of his other characters, Narcos, Games of Thrones, I don't know how to beat that big guy, and I'm going to let the audience know I don't know how to beat him, or I'm going to let them feel me on that. So he's very vulnerable in a beautiful way. So when he puts on this Mandalorian costume you can kind of feel a little bit of that vulnerability which is such a great contrast, and it just makes him that much more mysterious. You want to know who is this guy underneath here. You can feel his personality, you want to know more about him. He's so sexy.
We know each other from the New York theater scene, and then we got to work together on The Mentalist, totally randomly, so it was awesome to be able to work with him on this.
Pedro and I, actually, I know him from the theater crowd in New York, but then we got to work together on The Mentalist, because he came in as a love interest for Robin's character while I was on the show. And that was so much fun because we knew each other from New York, and then we got to work together on that, and then finding out that I was going to get to work with him on The Mandalorian was really cool.
The Mandalorian is a character I would say built on these icons of film history that we find in some Akira Kurosawa samurai movies, Sergio Leone cowboy westerns, spaghetti westerns, the lonely guy who won't tell you his name, in this case won't show you his face, and a lot of moral ambiguity, and I would say expressed more so in this series and with all of our characters, you know, I think the moral universe of Star Wars can be very specific and kind of black and white, there's good and there's evil, and in this one we start to play with the boundaries of that more, and that is dealt with very interestingly with this character. He's not your typical hero.
The moment I put on the helmet it was a big geek-out, big, big geek-out moment.
Isaac: "Is Pedro Pascal the Mandalorian?" Pascal: "Pedro Pascal is the Mandalorian." Isaac: "You're welcome. I convinced him to do it."
When I met Jon Favreau for this project, he asked me if I was a fan of Star Wars, and I told him that I didn't have a choice because I was born in 1975. And so I saw these movies in a movie theater and they shaped my imagination. Empire is most indelibly marked in my memory and my childhood imagination.
The average person if you show them that helmet, if they say anything they'll say it's Boba Fett. So we immediately started to draw visual differences between the two characters. Our character's more bulked up than Boba ever was, his armor's actually quite different if you look at it. His helmet's actually different, little different traits to it. The colors of it. All these things point out at little differences. There are similarities, which are almost unavoidable, but we wanted to tell a story with somebody where we had kind of more of a blank page to write it.
You'd think that we felt a lot of pressure but somehow Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau shielded us from that and made it just this environment where we could just come and create and play and work really, really, really hard.
Isaac: "Is Pedro Pascal the Mandalorian?" Pascal: "Pedro Pascal is the Mandalorian." Isaac: "You're welcome. I convinced him to do it."
The average person if you show them that helmet, if they say anything they'll say it's Boba Fett. So we immediately started to draw visual differences between the two characters. Our character's more bulked up than Boba ever was, his armor's actually quite different if you look at it. His helmet's actually different, little different traits to it. The colors of it. All these things point out at little differences. There are similarities, which are almost unavoidable, but we wanted to tell a story with somebody where we had kind of more of a blank page to write it.
You'd think that we felt a lot of pressure but somehow Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau shielded us from that and made it just this environment where we could just come and create and play and work really, really, really hard.
