Amandla Stenberg was SHOCKED by the scripts for The Acolyte

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The star lead her ensemble cast to the UK Premiere of Disney's latest Star Wars adventure. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Joining a franchise like this with nearly like 50 years of history

00:04 There's so many stories have been told I mean so much to so many people that must have taken

00:08 Like a week out of work just to calm down and prep.

00:12 I think you just don't

00:15 You just don't you just try to remain as open and grateful

00:20 And lead with as much love for the universe as you can at every moment and just kind of like shake your head in disbelief

00:27 Now this story is set before most of the stories that we've seen before if not possibly all of the stories that we've seen before

00:34 So I guess there's a little bit of less pressure to follow something in a way

00:38 But knowing the fandom knowing the amount of comic-cons you're gonna be dragged to over the coming years

00:43 Did you feel you had to go back and just take in as much as you could of what has already come to pass?

00:49 Oh hell yes

00:51 And it also just became like my joy to do you know

00:55 it became my job to just dive as deeply into the universe as I possibly could and

00:59 After doing that I agreed with all the fans or not all of them

01:04 I mean, it's widely debated, but I was like this is such a fascinating point in the timeline

01:09 there's so much happening in the galaxy and

01:12 Leslie's question around the show is when we arrived to Phantom Menace

01:16 How is it possible that the Jedi Council went so long without potentially foreseeing this threat?

01:21 and so we get to explore that question and brings up a lot of ideas around the Jedi and

01:26 How they could potentially be blind to the underbelly of their own world?

01:31 And I'm hearing that there are a few

01:33 Kind of fresh elements to this that we haven't seen necessarily in the Star Wars universe before that's going to bring its own kind of

01:40 Pressure and excitement as a performer to be telling those stories

01:43 Where are you like sitting on that when you went through the script and on set were you like oh god

01:49 This is gonna. It's gonna shake some people up

01:51 When I went through the script originally I was like what I had to take notes in order to track all of all of the

01:59 different narratives because it is really an ensemble piece at the end of the day and

02:03 you know

02:05 my

02:07 My job was convoluted to say the least

02:10 And you'll see more of that when you see the show, but it took a lot of work for me to track all the emotional

02:18 Arcs of it in the most gratifying way

02:20 And I think it really pays off in the end and Leslie did such a wonderful job leaving this narrative

02:25 She's fantastic at red herrings and pop turns and and she's great at emotional relationships

02:30 And seeing those characters develop in that way over the series was so beautiful. You just relieved you can throw away your NDA soon

02:36 Because I'm out the amount of questions that people would have had for you over the last few months about what's going to be happening

02:42 What we're gonna see that must be a lot to take on

02:45 I highly doubt Lucasfilm would ever allow me to throw out my NDA, but I'm so excited to share it with the fans

02:52 I've been waiting for this moment

02:54 Like this is the reason why we made it and I just can't wait to connect with them

02:58 Over it and like even seeing fans here

03:01 You know, it's like one of our first times like stepping out into the world saying hey

03:05 Here's this show that we made and it's just the best part of it

03:09 And I hope I go to more cons because I love cons. Well, congratulations show looks awesome

03:13 I can't wait to see it. Have an awesome day. It hasn't rained yet in London. So that's a miracle as well

03:18 I felt a little something something.

03:20 (laughing)

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