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Ahsoka Picked Up for Season 2

In news surprising no one, it has been announced that a new season of ‘Ahsoka’ will be happening soon. Per Variety, it is reported that season 2 is in development with creator Dave Filoni.

The news came with the reveal of the new “Star Wars” film “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” directed by Jon Favreau, which was unveiled Tuesday morning.

“‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’ will lead Lucasfilm’s ongoing feature-development slate, including films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who is also currently developing ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2, among those in the works,” the announcement said.

No other information was given.

Are you guys excited to see a season 2 of Ahsoka? I personally can’t wait to see Mary back as Hera! 🙂

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Mary Discusses Latest Projects in New Interview

Mary recently sat down with Collider where they mostly spoke about her current project, the Netflix animated series ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ and returning to the character of Ramona Flowers over 10 years later. In the interview, she also speaks about wanting to explore the character of Hera more in the Disney+ series ‘Ahsoka’ and her upcoming project ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, which she’ll star alongside her husband Ewan McGregor. I added a few highlights where she talks about it all, but be sure to click the link above to read the entire interview.

What was the best part about getting to play Ramona again? Were there challenges in returning to her, so many years after playing her?

WINSTEAD: It was a huge experience for all of us, making the film, and that comes with all the history of your old self. There were a lot of things that came flooding back for me, of just the person that I used to be, and having to go back to that and be in that body again. It was definitely more emotional than I expected it to be. I was like, “Oh, God, I’ve been taken back in time and I’m being myself at 24.” There’s just a lot of feelings around that. It was amazing to get to go on this journey with that version of myself and that version of Ramona and get to grow with her in this truncated time frame. It was almost like experiencing being myself at 24 and myself at 38, and in a few months’ time, I went through all that time with her, which was just amazing. It was a deep process that I totally didn’t expect. I just expected to go in and have fun, and it ended up being more powerful to me than that.

I would imagine this character was already special to you because of the following it’s had, and then it gives you all that self-reflection to come back to it. That must have been such a surreal experience.

WINSTEAD: It was absolutely surreal and unexpected. I think the reason why we’re so game to always come back to it and it has stayed with us for all these years is because it was really an influential thing that happened in our very formative years. There’s a lot to say around playing these characters and being a part of this project, and it means a lot to all of us.

Have you thought about what you would want to explore with Hera, if you get to do more of Ahsoka? What an awesome character that is.

WINSTEAD: She’s such an amazing character. There’s such a wealth of experiences that we could bring to [Hera], in terms of either going back and showing a bit of her backstory, of what led up to the moment where we see her in Ahsoka, or at least just feeling it through getting to know where she’s at now in her journey. It’s so hard to talk about without giving away things that might have been discussed in the past. All the fans of her and of Rebels know that there’s so much that can be done with that role, so I would be really excited to get to go down that path.

You also have A Gentleman in Moscow, which sounds like a very interesting character exploration. What appealed to you about telling that story and playing that character? What are you excited for fans to see with that?

WINSTEAD: It’s an incredibly beautiful, sweeping epic story. It just encompasses so many universal themes of love and loss and war, in a way that really pulls on the heartstrings, but it’s also funny and odd. I think it’s a brilliant book, and I think people who love the book will hopefully really be excited to go on the journey with these characters. To get to be in that time period, from the twenties through the fifties, and to get to play it out with my husband and do these really fun, passionate scenes together, was just so exciting. It was really a dream come true.

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Mary’s Christmas Celebration

Mary spent her Christmas with Ewan’s children this year which included his oldest daughter Clara, Esther, Jamyan, and Anouk. At the holiday gathering, they were joined by Ewan’s ex-wife Eve & of course, Mary and Ewan’s son, Laurie. The pic was posted to Clara’s Instagram account. Head to the gallery to check out the full-sized photo! 🙂

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New ‘Ahsoka’ and ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Interviews

2 brand new interviews are out, one with Mary discussing SPTO and the other with Dave Filoni on what we could see with Mary’s character Hera in Ahsoka should the series get picked up for a season 2:

“We set up Captain Pellaeon in The Mandalorian, and that’s a character that goes with Thrawn, so I’d love to see the two of them together,” Filoni teases. Plus, he points out, a fellow figure from Ahsoka has a long-standing conflict with the Grand Admiral. “His foil throughout Rebels was Hera,” Filoni states. “Pitting the two generals against one another is something that I find interesting.”

So looks like we’ll definitely be seeing some very cool battles between the two characters & of course this means more screen time for Mary, which I’m sure we’re all excited to see when that time comes.

In other news, Mary did another interview promoting Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which is currently streaming on Netflix. You can watch that below.

Mary on returning to the character of Ramona Flowers years later:

“I always had this huge love and connection to Ramona, but I always kind of wanted to do a bit more with her. So to get to come to this point, to be able to explore her further and to get to have different sides of her and different shades to her and kind of flesh her out into this very full person was like, it meant a lot to me. You could feel that Bryan and BenDavid (series co-creator BenDavid Grabinski) really wanted to give her that as a character. And that was really, really special.”

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Mary and Ewan Leave Restaurant Together

Brand new candids have been released of Mary and Ewan leaving a restaurant in Santa Monica on December 16. The couple left arm and arm before Ewan drove off. You can view the new pics in the gallery.

Video of them leaving the restaurant has also been added:

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Ewan Facetimes Mary at Tokyo Comic Con

During a moment at Tokyo Comic Con today, Ewan facetimed Mary and an official pic was released. There’s also a quick video someone took which you can view below:

In other news, I forgot to upload this video, but a behind the scenes video was released of the Scott Pilgrim Cast came out recording some lines for the Netflix series. All episodes are currently streaming.

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New ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ and ‘Ahsoka’ Interviews

Now that the SAG-AFTRA strikes are finally over, celebrities can go back to doing interviews to talk about their shows and films. First up, Mary spoke with Collider in a brand new interview about Ahsoka and how she hopes she’ll get a chance to return to the character of Hera:

“She’s such an amazing character. “There’s such a wealth of experiences that we could bring to her, in terms of either going back and showing a bit of her backstory, of what led up to the moment where we see her in Ahsoka, or at least just feeling it through getting to know where she’s at now in her journey. It’s so hard to talk about without giving away things that might have been discussed in the past. All the fans of her and of Rebels know that there’s so much that can be done with that role, so I would be really excited to get to go down that path.”

Mary on working with Dave Filoni (the new creative chief of LucasFilm):

He’s pretty open when it comes to things he would like to do. He lives and breathes Star Wars and there’s an infinite amount of things that he would like to do, that he could do, and his brain is firing on so many levels. I just try not to get too caught up in it because you never know what’s really going to be able to be accomplished and what’s going to make sense within all the storylines. I just wait until they call for me, and then I’ll be like, “Oh, cool, they’re actually going with that idea,” or “Oh, I guess they decided not to.” I just try to go with the flow. But it’s great to get little hints at his process and his frame of mind. It’s really cool.

Mary also did brand new video interviews with her ‘Scott Pilgrim’ co-star Ellen Wong who played Knives Chau. In the two interviews, they talked about getting to revisit their characters and how the Netflix anime series differs from the 2010 film. The transcript for the ComingSoon interview can be found on their site.



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‘SPTO’ Grabs Critics Choice Nomination; Mary Lands on IMDB’s Top Stars of 2023

Some exciting end of the year news for all of us Mary fans! First up, it was announced on Tuesday that Netflix’s new anime series ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ has landed a Critics Choice Nomination for Best Animated Series. The show is up against Fox’s ‘Bob’s Burgers’ & the children’s animated show ‘Bluey’. The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 14. Chelsea Handler will host the ceremony that airs live from 7-10 p.m. in the East on The CW and delayed in the West. The group’s film nominations will be revealed on December 13.

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

Bluey (Disney+)
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Harley Quinn (HBO | Max)
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix)
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)
Young Love (HBO | Max)

In other news, a huge congratulations is in order for Mary as she came in at #2(!!!) on IMDB’s Top 100 Stars of 2023. According to the site, the rankings came in based on IMDB page views. You can view the entire list of stars here. Here is their reasoning as to why Mary almost took the top spot:

As part of the trifecta of women at the center of Star Wars series “Ahsoka,” Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot to the top of IMDb’s STARmeter, staying in the top five through the entire season. Behind her green Twi’lek makeup, Winstead portrayed Hera Syndulla, a character familiar to fans of the animated “Star Wars: Rebels.” To close out the year, the actress lent her voice to the animated ”Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” playing the same character she portrayed in the live action Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 13 years ago.

Upcoming projects: Rich Flu“A Gentleman in Moscow”

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Mary Attends New ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Event

I have added brand new photos of Mary Elizabeth Winstead from earlier this week where she was in attendance at the Egyptian Theater with her Scott Pilgrim Vs the World (2010) co-star Ellen Wong, director Edgar Wright, creator of the SP series Bryan Lee O’Malley and her former Swiss Army Man directors The Daniels.
I have also included video where Edgar talks about casting Mary as Ramona Flowers and another part where she talks about her experience filming the movie.

And just as a reminder: ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ will begin streaming on Netflix this Friday, November 17.

 

 

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Mary Elizabeth Attends Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Premiere

On Friday, Mary attended the first premiere for ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is officially over and at the event, she was joined by her co-stars Ellen Wong, Brandon Routh and Satya Bhabha along with film director Edgar Wright and creator of the Scott Pilgrim comics Bryan Lee O’Malley. While there, Mary also reunited with her ex-husband Riley Stearns. The final trailer for the upcoming Netflix series was also released and the show will begin streaming this week on November 17th.

Head to the gallery to check out the new pics. Video for the final trailer is below.

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