You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
Bo-Katan Kryze finally made her long-awaited live-action debut in The Mandalorian season 2 episode 3, played by Katee Sackhoff, who also voices the character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. In the episode, it was revealed that Bo-Katan is on the hunt for Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon and the Darksaber – which left us all wondering how Bo-Katan lost the ancestral weapon in the first place.
In Mandalorian culture, the Darksaber is viewed as a symbol of power: whoever owns the weapon is thought to be the rightful ruler of Mandalore. Bo-Katan was in possession of the Darksaber the last time we saw her in animated form, but now the villainous Gideon has it under his control. Sackhoff, talking to ET, revealed more about the situation.
“There are a lot of theories,” Sackhoff acknowledged, then added: “There is a story there and we will find out, but I would hate to ruin it for anyone.”
As for how she reacted to seeing the Darksaber in someone else’s hands, Sackhoff exclaimed: “I was like, screaming at the TV when I saw that. I was like, 'He doesn’t even look good holding it!'”
Sackhoff also talked a bit about Bo-Katan’s characterisation in The Mandalorian: “There is a little piece of Bo-Katan that I don’t think you see coming. She’s got something else going on in her mind, and…everything she does is purposeful, and I think that that is new for her. She’s grown into the role of a leader, and I think she finally believes that she is that leader, but there is an ego that comes with that with her, that may or may not work against her.”
But Sackhoff was tight-lipped on giving away anything else, and suggested that even she doesn’t know what happens next: “I want to know what happened with that Darksaber… I want to know if she’s going to get it back… We’ll just have to wait and see.”
