It never really occurred to Deborah Chow that she was the first female “Star Wars” director until her first episode of “The Mandalorian” aired in 2019 and someone mentioned it to her.
Chow’s success directing two episodes for the first season of “The Mandalorian” led to Lucasfilm hiring her to helm “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a six-episode limited series that was originally imagined as a feature. The project, which was always intended as a vehicle for Ewan McGregor, had been in development for a while when Chow came on board, but she was instrumental in shaping the arc of the story alongside writer and showrunner Joby Harold.
Casting Ewan McGregor for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” was a given. But adding Hayden Christiansen was “special.” Once the series had its legacy cast in place, Chow worked to fill the rest of the world with equally memorable new characters, as well as a younger version of Princess Leia, played by Vivien Lyra Blair. Moses Ingram joined as Reva Sevander, a figure seemingly on the dark side with a complicated past, as did Indira Varma as Tala Durith.“We wanted to have something new alongside the established characters,” Chow says.
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