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Katee Sackhoff <\/strong>is getting candid about playing the live-action version of her Star Wars <\/a><\/em>character, Bo-Katan Kryze, in the hit series, The Mandalorian<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly <\/a>reported that Sackhoff said she didn’t connect to Bo-Katan while filming the second and third seasons of The Mandalorian<\/em>, causing her not to feel confident in her acting abilities, in an August 2025 episode of her podcast, The Sackhoff Show<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n “I lost all of my confidence after\u00a0Mandalorian<\/em>. All of it. I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. It always felt grounded in some part of my belly, of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants \u2014\u00a0I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her,” said Sackhoff.<\/p>\n The actress said the situation “broke” her.<\/p>\n “It just broke me. I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work, and it just destroyed my confidence,” continued the 45-year-old.<\/p>\n She also shared that she decided to get a different manager and spoke to an acting coach following the third season of The<\/em>Mandalorian<\/em>, which aired in 2023.<\/p>\n “[The coach] said to me, ‘My goal is not to teach you how to act. You know how to act. I just need to get you back in your belly. You just need to find your confidence again.’ That’s it,” said the Battlestar Galactica<\/em> star.<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly reported that Sackhoff was first cast as Bo-Katan, a polarizing Mandalorian, for the animated Star Wars<\/em> series, The Clone Wars<\/em>. Sackhoff spoke about providing the voice for Bo-Katan in The Clone Wars <\/em>and Star Wars Rebels<\/em>, which aired from 2014 to 2018, during a February 2024 episode of the Inside of You <\/a><\/em>podcast.<\/p>\n “I voiced her for about 10 years. Not many episodes though. I only did maybe eight episodes but she made an impression,” said Sackhoff during the interview. “She was around sort of at the end of Clone Wars<\/em>. She was in Rebels <\/em>as well. She had an integral part in the tone of what it was when it ended. So it did make complete sense for her to find her way in The<\/em>Mandalorian<\/em>.”<\/p>\n In addition, Sackhoff said she was a major fan of Star Wars <\/em>before she was cast to voice Bo-Katan in The Clone Wars<\/em>, which aired from 2008 to 2013.<\/p>\n “So Clone Wars<\/em> was an amazing opportunity for me to be apart of this world. [Bo-Katan] is literally the gift that keeps on giving. I never dreamed that I would be such an integral part of season 3 [of The Mandalorian<\/em>]. I want to keep playing her until there are no storylines left to tell,” said the actress in the podcast episode.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 22, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katee Sackhoff is getting candid about playing the live-action version of her Star Wars character, Bo-Katan Kryze, in the hit series, The Mandalorian. 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