The Ukrainian actress talks joining the Star Wars galaxy and wielding a red lightsaber.
“She’s very calculated,” the Ukrainian actress teases.
“She’s impatient, but she’s a seeker.
Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati in ‘Ahsoka’.Lucasfilm
She’s only in the beginning of finding her own voice.”
She spent months training with stunt coordinator Ming Qiu to perfect Shin’s brutal lightsaber style.
All the buttons are working, and you feel like it’s your childhood dream coming true.
You really feel like a pilot in a ship.
And you get to do this for a living."
“He really cherishes the opinion of every person,” Sakhno adds.
“Creating Shin, I just felt like my involvement mattered.
Because she’s a new character, we got to create parts of her from the very beginning.
With the costume and makeup, it felt like storytelling.”
