ANDOR Actress Reveals She Has a Small Role in STAR WARS: AHSOKA and Explains What That Experience Was Like

Genevieve O'Reilly made her big Star Wars debut in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in a flashback scene featuring Mon Mothma. She went on to appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and now has her biggest role yet in Star Wars: Andor.

O'Reilly has revealed that she is now also set to appear in Star Wars: Ahsoka, which takes place years after Mon Mothma's first live-action appearance in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Now, she only has a small role in the series, but it’s still interesting and cool to learn that she will be a part of it.

During a recent interview with DiscussingFilm, O’Reilly talked about her experience working on Ahsoka, saying:

"It was fascinating that they asked me and it was such a surprise. I was really thrilled that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni were interested in me coming for a minute to play with them. They're such brilliant filmmakers. It was just thrilling for me to be able to go over and play with them for a bit. I'm a huge fan of Rosario [Dawson], she's a brilliant and formidable woman and actor. I think what they're doing with that piece is going to be really exciting.

She went on to say that she got to mostly work with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays Hera Syndulla in the series. She added: “Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a wonderful actor and to get to work with her also was amazing." She went on to talk about the opportunity to play Mon Mothma again, saying:

"It felt extraordinary for Mon to get the opportunity to enter a different world again, and perhaps that's because I'm so invested in Andor. But when Jon and Dave rang and spoke so passionately about Mon, and made it clear that they really wanted her to be in Ahsoka, I felt humbled that they were inviting me to come and join them. They're brilliant storytellers and filmmakers at the cutting edge. What they're doing over there with how they use The Volume, they film in a very different way than how we filmed [Andor]. That was really exciting and informative for me to go over and learn how they do that because using that kind of cutting-edge technology to inform the piece, it's a very different way of filming. I was grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of that."

It’s good to hear that she had such a good experience working on the show, which is set after the fall of the Empire, and follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

The show will pick up where Star Wars Rebels left off and the search for Ezra Bridger begins. The series is set after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka “follows the former Jedi knight Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.”

That threat is Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen), who we get a first look at in the trailer, and Ezra took off with him to an unknown location. Sabine (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) joins Ahsoka on her journey, and she is still very much dedicated to finding Ezra. They will be joined by Hera, Chopper, and Zeb will also most likely return.

The series also stars Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, Ivanna Sakhno, Eman Esfandi as Ezra, Ray Stevenson as Baylon, and Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati.

The limited series is written by Dave Filoni who executive produces along with Jon Favreau and Kathleen Kennedy.

Ahsoka will debut on Disney+ on August 23, 2023.