Rosario Dawson provides a filming update on the highly-anticipated Ahsoka TV show. One-time Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker Ahsoka Tano first came into fans’ lives on the animated show Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The Togruta warrior later made her live-action debut in The Mandalorian season 2.

Ahsoka was of course already a fan favorite character in animated form, and became even more so once she was introduced to the world of live-action Star Wars on Disney+. It was a natural then that Ahsoka would return for another appearance in The Book of Boba Fett, and that she would ultimately receive her own spinoff show. That spinoff show was indeed confirmed to begin filming in early May 2022, with Dawson returning as Tano.

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The process of filming a TV show as big as Ahsoka is of course a long one. Indeed, during an interview with Screen Rant to promote Clerks 3, Dawson revealed that shooting on the show is still ongoing several months after it launched. She said:

“Yes, we’re still filming it right now. We just have a couple months left. It’s going great. It’s really amazing learning martial arts in my 40s. [Laughs] It’s super amazing, and I don’t use that word very lightly. My grandmother used to say, ‘Amazing is two blue horses,’ if you ever said something was amazing. Because it’d be like, ‘No, amazing is two blue horses. That pizza slice probably isn’t amazing.’”

It’s of course already been revealed that Ahsoka is set during the same time period as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, placing it after the events of Return of the Jedi in the larger Star Wars timeline. It’s also known that the show will feature more characters from the Star Wars Rebels animated series besides Ahsoka, including Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), Hera Syndulla, and the droid Chopper. Not yet confirmed is one exciting fan theory suggesting Ahsoka will focus on Tano’s ongoing hunt for Grand Admiral Thrawn, a fan-favorite villain from Star Wars Rebels (Ray Stevenson has been cast as an Imperial Admiral but it’s not confirmed that this is Thrawn). And perhaps most importantly, Ahsoka will bring back Hayden Christensen to play Anakin Skywalker (though the show is of course set after that character’s demise in Return of the Jedi, so a Force Ghost appearance is likely in the offing).

This latest expansion of the Star Wars streaming menu is of course an exciting development for fans who can’t get enough of that particular space opera universe. And it’s even more exciting for fans who love characters from the Star Wars animated universe, and can’t wait to see how things play out as Ahsoka continues questing around the galaxy. Dawson’s grandmother might balk at calling all this “amazing,” but fans undoubtedly have no qualms about throwing around such superlatives when considering the further on-screen adventures of Ahsoka Tano and her Star Wars Rebels compatriots. Ahsoka is set to be released on Disney+ some time in 2023.