Concurs Keen: “You’ll love this.”
Their costar Barnett goes even further when comparing the fight scenes ofThe Acolyteto thatPhantom Menacemelee.
For Barnett, that reliance on practical and physical work will come through on the screen.
Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, and Charlie Barnett of ‘The Acolyte’.Rachell Smith
“We have an awesome stunt team.
I mean, I know I’ve been hit on the head a couple times.”
Keen also admits to being bonked on her noggin on multiple occasions.
Dafne Keen of ‘The Acolyte’.Rachell Smith
“All of the fight training that we’ve gone through is so heavily influenced by samurai.”
Only this time, laser swords are subbing in for, you know, actual swords.
And that choice of lightsaber weaponry also appealed to Keen.
“I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this, but I will just say it.
Because it gives you that body-to-body choreography that dance feeling.
We get a lot of that body-to-body.”
“We have a lot of the sabers,” says Keen.
We watched some stuff the other day and it was just gorgeous.
It’s also really fun and does look really gritty and real.
It feels like a fight."
And that fight will begin in 2024 on Disney+.
