armour. They are serious. Stoic. Inscrutable.
They have a code of conduct that would probably
be 300 pages long if you printed it out. They say,
“This is the way,” a lot. Basically, they’re like
Masons, but with jetpacks.
They’ve been running rampant in the
animated Star Wars TV show, The Clone Wars,
for a while now. But, barring the exploits of the
Fetts, they’ve been conspicuous by their absence
from live-action Star Wars. “I thought, ‘How
come there are no Mandalorians in the movies?’”
says Favreau. “‘What’s going on there?’”
Teaming up with Dave Filoni, Lucasfi lm’s
animation guru, who had also been toying with
doing something in the Mandalorian area,
Favreau came up with the Mandalorian we now
know as Mando. Now all he needed was someone
to fi ll the helmet.“THE HELMET IS tough!” laughs Pedro Pascal,
the man charged with that task. “It’s super-
tough! It’s hard to see, it’s hard to hear. It’s
incredibly challenging, but incredibly satisfying
to see it work.”
Pascal, who could have done with a helmet
on Game Of Thrones when his character, the Red
Viper, had his eyes gouged out by the Mountain;
or in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, when he
was fed head-fi rst into a mincing machine,
admits that the prospect of covering up was
simultaneously freeing and daunting. Not every
actor is happy to go down the Karl Urban/Judge
Dredd route when it comes to donning helmetsTop:Baby Yoda
— the face that
launched
a thousand
memes.
Middle:Cara
Dune (Gina
Carano)
addresses the
natives.
Bottom:Mando
faces off against
a rampaging
AT-ST.