{"id":102887,"date":"2025-08-22T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102887\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:52:07","slug":"mandalorians-katee-sackhoff-didnt-work-for-3-years-lost-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102887\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff Didn’t Work for 3 Years, Lost Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Mandalorian<\/a>\u201d actor Katee Sackhoff<\/a>, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d show, has opened up about the struggles she had playing the character and finding work in the last few years.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn a recent episode of her podcast, \u201cThe Sackhoff Show,\u201d she discussed with her former \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d co-star Tahmoh Penikett how playing Bo-Katan on \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d dealt a blow to her confidence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI lost all of my confidence after \u2018Mandalorian,\u2019 all of it. I\u2019ve 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\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 she said, adding, \u201cMy style of acting has always just been, \u2018Your first instinct is the right instinct. Do that. Play the reality of the situation.\u2019 And I\u2019ve never really played a character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSackhoff originated Bo-Katan in the animated series \u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d in the 2010s then brought her to live-action in \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d Season 2 in 2020. Her role as a fellow Mandalorian warrior was expanded in Season 3, where she was upped to co-star with lead actor Pedro Pascal. Rather than continuing the story in a fourth season, Disney is releasing \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d in theaters next May; Sackhoff has not been announced as part of its cast. She said she struggled to get work in the three years following \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d Season 3, which released in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt broke me. It just broke me,\u201d Sackhoff said. \u201cI started doubting everything about myself. I\u2019m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn\u2019t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn\u2019t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince then, Sackhoff hired a new manager and acting coach, who told her, \u201c\u2018My 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.’\u201d In 2024, she appeared on an episode of \u201cLaw & Order,\u201d plus some voice acting on animated series, and she\u2019s part of the cast of the upcoming \u201cCarrie\u201d series on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch her video below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d actor Katee Sackhoff, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d show, has opened up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,68627,68628],"class_list":{"0":"post-102887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-katee-sackhoff","10":"tag-the-mandalorian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}