Working on “The Mandalorian” destroyed all of Katee Sackhoff’s confidence.
While talking on her podcast “The Sackhoff Show,” the “Battlestar Galactica” alum opened up about working on the Disney+ original Star Wars series and how it decimated her acting confidence. According to her, she just could not figure out her character Bo-Katan.
“I lost all of my confidence after ‘Mandalorian.’ All of it,” Sackhoff said. “I’ve 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 — I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her.”
She continued: “It broke me. It just broke me. I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.”
Sackhoff has been playing Bo-Katan – a Mandalorian fighting for the freedom of her people – for years. She started off voicing the character in the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” back in 2012. She returned as the character in a second animated show – “Star Wars: Rebels” – in 2017.
Sackhoff then became one of a few voice actors who transitioned into playing their characters in a live-action Star Wars series. She joined “The Mandalorian” for a pair of episodes in the show’s second season before becoming a core cast member for the more divisive Season 3.
Her next role reunites her with “Oculus” director Mike Flanagan. Sackhoff is set to join Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation – this time a TV series based on “Carrie” streaming on Prime Video.
