Leslye Headland opens up about the series' big, brutal reveal of Star Wars' latest masked villain.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Leslye Headland discussed her process conceiving this week’s shockingly violent episode of The Acolyte : “I think a good twist is telegraphing what’s going to happen, and then once it does, executing it without an ounce of pity or sentimentality.
” In the grand Star Wars tradition, Headland additionally noted that Qimir’s unmasking as the Stranger was inspired by an earlier martial arts movie— this time, the 1966 Hong Kong film, Come Drink With Me, in which an unassuming alcoholic is revealed to be a deadly Shaolin master. “We talked a lot about how you take a low-status character and convert him to a badass,” Jacinto said of playing the reveal.
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