'Star Wars: The Acolyte' aims to top Darth Maul lightsaber fight: 'That was a very frequent conversation we had,' Dafne Keen says of trying to match the epic scene.
But there is another reason fans are eagerly anticipating the show, and that would be the brief glimpses at the action on display in thehas fans dreaming of returning to what many consider to be the best lightsaber battle in franchise history — Darth Maul’s aerobatic engagement against Qui-Gon Jin and Obi-Wan Kenobi incan match or exceed that epic confrontation, they are not alone. It is a bar that the cast and crew talked openly and often about clearing.
For the 19-year-old actress, using the Force brought her back to when she was younger and scouring the street for objects to help recreate what she had seen onscreen. “I remember watchingwhen I was a kid, then playing with sticks on the street and being like, ‘I have a saber!’ And now finally getting to learn these incredible choreographies that the stunt team put together was just honestly such a privilege, because we had such an amazing stunt team.
That wasn’t Keen’s only problem. "And also, I kept smiling. I was so excited and they kept having to come up to me and be like, ‘Dafne, you need to stop smiling. You're fighting someone.’ And I'd be like, ‘Oh yeah, I'm sorry. This is just so fun. I love this.’” If the show delivers on its goal of delivering some of the best lightsaber battles ever put on screen, fans won’t be able to stop smiling either.
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