{"id":686647,"date":"2026-06-05T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:31:08","slug":"acolyte-creator-on-the-shows-re-evaluation-possible-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686647\/","title":{"rendered":"Acolyte creator on the show’s re-evaluation, possible season two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few Star Wars titles have received such a swift re-evaluation as Leslye Headland\u2019s The Acolyte<\/a>, calling into question how much execs should rely on knee-jerk, click-hungry opinions of YouTubers. Much like how right-wing lunatics drive every political conversation in America simply by being whiny crybabies who are keenly aware of how much social media algorithms prefer outrage to sincerity, Star Wars\u2018 Disney era has been driven, mostly, by its loudest commentators. Yet, much like how The Last Jedi made a fuck-ton of money in 2017 and 2018, despite the impression that everyone hated it and couldn\u2019t believe what they did to Luke, lots of people actually watched and finished The Acolyte. Shortly after the premiere of Disney+\u2019s latest animated series, Darth Maul: Shadow Lord, somehow The Acolyte returned to the streaming charts. Headland is hardly surprised because the show was meant to be swallowed in one gulp. It was \u201cdesigned\u201d for bingeing, Headland tells Empire<\/a>, perhaps explaining why the show is clicking with audiences now that it\u2019s not running week to week.<\/p>\n

But as Headland notes, \u201cThe weather changes with Star Wars<\/a>. There was a real negative reaction to [the Prequels], especially from a particular generation. And 25 years later, Hayden [Christensen] is at Celebration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

With that in mind, she\u2019d \u201cabsolutely\u201d still be down for returning to the High Republic if Disney would have it. \u201cWe did have a lot of stuff that we wanted to explore \u2014 including tying in lore to the sequels,\u201d she says. \u201cGetting into who exactly Manny\u2019s character is, his connection with [Jedi Master] Vernestra, his connection with Plagueis, and then his connection with other sequel-established things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, whether her cast would want to keep dealing with Star Wars \u201cfans\u201d is another story. Star Amandla Stenberg faced the same gutter racism, misogyny, and homophobia that has befell many other actors of color in Star Wars over the last decade. Stenberg even wrote a song about the \u201cintolerable racism\u201d she faced on the show, while her co-star Lee Jung-jae expressed dismay over the reaction to the show. \u201cMy feelings were hurt,\u201d Lee told Vanity Fair<\/a>. \u201cEspecially for Leslye Headland\u2014her feelings must have hurt a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few Star Wars titles have received such a swift re-evaluation as Leslye Headland\u2019s The Acolyte, calling into question…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-686647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686647","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=686647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}