{"id":1975325,"date":"2025-08-22T22:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1975325"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:17:56","slug":"katee-sackhoff-says-the-mandalorian-ruined-her-confidence-and-she-didnt-work-for-three-years-it-just-broke-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/katee-sackhoff-says-the-mandalorian-ruined-her-confidence-and-she-didnt-work-for-three-years-it-just-broke-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Katee Sackhoff Says The Mandalorian Ruined Her Confidence, and She Didn\u2019t Work for Three Years: \u2018It Just Broke Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Mandalorian<\/em> was a breakout hit for Disney+, but working on the Star Wars series doesn\u2019t exactly conjure up fond memories for Katee Sackhoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> veteran, who played Bo-Katan Kryze on <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>, revealed in a recent episode of her podcast <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iktFxfDxUpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sackhoff Show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sackhoff Show<\/a><\/em> that her two seasons on the show completely shattered her confidence as an actor, leading to her barely working in Hollywood at all for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TVLine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI lost all of my confidence after <em>Mandalorian<\/em>, all of it,\u201d Sackhoff admitted in a conversation with her <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> co-star Tahmoh Penikett. \u201cBo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants \u2014\u00a0I didn\u2019t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn\u2019t know how to find her.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>The Mandalorian Recap Season 3 Episode 6<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a result, \u201cit just broke me,\u201d Sackhoff remembers. \u201cI started doubting everything about myself\u2026 I wasn\u2019t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn\u2019t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.\u201d (Sackhoff appeared in an episode of <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> in 2024, along with some voice roles in animated projects.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sackhoff debuted as Bo-Katan in the animated series <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> before reprising the role in live-action form on <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>, beginning in Season 2. Bo-Katan played a larger role in Season 3, with Sackhoff appearing in all eight episodes. The story is set to continue next year with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/news\/the-mandalorian-movie-grogu-1235110413\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the feature film The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the feature film <em>The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu<\/em><\/a> \u2014\u00a0but Sackhoff has not yet been announced as a member of the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She has rediscovered her love of performing since, though, hiring a new manager and an acting coach, who told her, \u201cYou just need to find your confidence again.\u201d Sackhoff is next set to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/casting-news\/boston-blue-marcus-scribner-cast-blue-bloods-spinoff-1235458367\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:appear in Prime Video\u2019s upcoming Carrie TV series;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">appear in Prime Video\u2019s upcoming <em>Carrie<\/em> TV series<\/a>, reuniting her with executive producer Mike Flanagan, who co-wrote and directed her 2013 film <em>Oculus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of TVLine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.tvline.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TVLine's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TVLine&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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The Battlestar Galactica veteran, who played Bo-Katan Kryze on The Mandalorian, revealed in a recent episode of her podcast The Sackhoff Show that her two seasons on the show completely shattered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1975326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[352664,352663,340090],"class_list":["post-1975325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-confidence","tag-katee-sackhoff","tag-the-mandalorian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Katee-Sackhoff-Says-The-Mandalorian-Ruined-Her-Confidence-and-She.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}