Yahoo Autos The Mandalorian's Emily Swallow Reflects On The 'Pressure' Carrie Fisher Faced As Princess Leia, Plus Playing The Armorer In Season 3
The Mandalorian has made its long-awaited return for Season 3 to bring Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and Emily Swallow’s Armorer back to their own show after appearing in The Book of Boba Fett. After the departure of Cara Dune (from which she’s unlikely to return) and Ahsoka heading off to her own spinoff, The Armorer is arguably the most important female character in the Star Wars TV show going back to its earliest days. Swallow recently weighed in on the franchise now including far more women than back in the original trilogy days when Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia was the only one of prominence.
Emily Swallow opened up about The Mandalorian as well as Supernatural (where she played Amara) during her panel at FAN EXPO Cleveland, and she was asked how she feels about the representation with more Star Wars women as opposed to the first three films with just Princess Leia as one of the major characters. Swallow responded:
I mean, what a lot of pressure that put on Carrie Fisher to have to be the one hero female for a while! I think it's wonderful the range of women now that we have in Star Wars and the fact that it's not that remarkable that they're women. They're just people. I really love that about The Armorer. I love that she's in this position of leadership and she is respected and looked up to and it doesn't seem to be anything exceptional that she's a woman. She is this powerful spiritual leader of these people and it doesn't seem like she's an exception to the rule. And I love that. I love that we notice she's a woman and then that stands out to us, but she's just awesome.
