Jun 28, 2023
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A Clan of Two.
Dave Filoni, Deborah Chow, Jon Favreau & Rick Famuyiwa DISNEY GALLERY: THE MANDALORIAN | The Making of Season 3
The Sarlacc Pit Blues | Disney Gallery: The Book of Boba Fett + bonus:
I need to rant
...about the absolute erasure of Pedro and his contributions that is seemingly policy now among The Mandalorian production and show runners. I have been seeing rumors on and off for years about the ostracizing people have witnessed towards Pedro. No more so than during season 3, and after watching the Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian “The Making of Season 3” special, I am now disappointed at how they did nothing but prove there’s something rotten happening on that production in regards to Pedro.
I’ll make my position clear AF:
Pedro is the Mandalorian, Din Djarin.
Lateef and Brendan are the stuntmen who help bring the Mandalorian to life. They are collaborators, just like all the costumers, choreographers, set designers, extras, etc that are part of the series. They are NOT the Mandalorian. We don’t give top billing to the stuntmen who do Deadpool over Ryan Reynolds, or erase James Earl Jones being Darth Vader, even though he was never in the actual Vader suit. So, I say it is bullshit that Pedro has been bumped to the side as if he’s some interloper in a production that he was the foundation of - nay, the star and driving force in crafting the persona and the physicality and LITERAL VOICE of the Mandalorian, Din Djarin. Seasons 1 and 2? He was in the suit more than half the time. Season 3 was different, yes, but to not even include an interview snippet of Pedro talking about his contribution to the season? Not having a single shoutout or acknowledgement of his participation? No one even said his fucking name in passing!
I found the entire thing so abhorrent and disgusting that I frankly no longer have any excitement or enthusiasm for this series continuing beyond the already announced 4th season and film Filoni is going to do. Not if Pedro is going to be treated as a fucking gopher that isn’t good enough to be acknowledged.
And what pisses me off the most? Pedro has been NOTHING BUT HUMBLE AND COMPLIMENTARY AND VOCAL about how Lateef and Brendan are massive influences in his performance and in collaborating to make the character the presence he is on the screen. He’s given those stunt fucks their flowers countless times, shouted out Filoni and Favreau, the writers, directors - literally everyone, and no one can even say, “Yeah, it was a fun season, but it needed more Pedro! I missed his presence”? BDH leaving comments praising the stunt fucks and tacking on Pedro as an afterthought? Like wtf is going on?
Need I remind everyone about the fact Pedro has a scar on his nose because of the negligence of the set production people leaving a piece of real wood thrown on the ground by the makeup trailer, and he walked out and stepped on it and got whacked in the face by it?! He literally bled and got stitches for this series and never complained or said a disparaging word! But they can’t even say his name in passing on the 3rd season which was pretty reviled and panned for it’s lack of plot and continuity behind the scenes special?! I want him to do his VO work, collect his check, and give this series the deuces.
Pedro deserves better, and clearly got it on TLOU production, which I’m thankful for. He's a kind and generous person who doesn’t deserve this level of disrespect.
Rant over 😤
HELLO?????
no one is doing it like temuera morrison, he really got himself cast in a big tv show like that and did everything within his power to portray the character with as many specifically Māori traits as possible. actively encorportating the haka into how he fights? specifically requesting a weapon which could be wielded like a taiaha?? and then theres a whole section in the doco about how important using Māori culture in boba fetts character was. absolute fucking national treasure
So I finally watched the Book of Boba Fett Gallery and Dave Filoni in all his "wisdom" literally said that he thinks Luke takes after the Qui-Gon method of being a Jedi.
Oh here we go - any excuse to bring up his main man, Qui-Gon Jinn.
Force forbid the two Jedi who ACTUALLY trained Luke had an impact on him.
Pedro in Din's armour vs. Din in Din's armour