

Fans who recognized him immediately responded to the casting when the episode went live on Disney+. In a 2018 social-media post, Best referenced the “media backlash” that he had faced early in his career (without specifically naming “Star Wars”) and alluded to having experienced suicidal thoughts.

That Jedi was played by Ahmed Best, who occupies a complicated place in “Star Wars” lore as the voice of Jar Jar Binks, the comic-relief character that everyone seemed to love hating in director George Lucas’ second (and in the “Star Wars” timeline, first) film trilogy, beginning with “The Phantom Menace.” Baby Yoda, flashed back to his perilous escape from the Jedi Temple, as a Jedi bravely rescued him from the invading troops when Order 66 was implemented. But the fourth episode, “The Foundling,” was actually defined by a flashback, one that featured a rather special cameo.Īfter many questions about his origins, Grogu, a.k.a. After the previous week’s extended detour into the dysfunction of the New Republic, “The Mandalorian” returned to more conventional pursuits, like an aerial battle to save a Mandalorian child from a giant winged monster.
