In a new interview with the cast of the Pod of Rebellion podcast, Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla) has revealed that she wasn’t aware of her son Jacen until she watched the Star Wars Rebels finale, with Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren) sharing she kept the secret for a year.
In an exclusive interview for ComicBook with the cast of Pod of Rebellion – the new rewatch podcast featuring Marshall, Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), and moderator Jon Lee Brody – the actors reminisced about the emotional series finale screening, where Marshall learned about Hera and Kanan’s child in real-time; a secret that Tiya Sircar had been fiercely guarding for an entire year.
“I thought there was a workaround [for Kanan’s death]. I didn’t know I was going to birth his child,” Marshall candidly admitted during our interview. As an actor, she lived through the loss Kanan’s sacrifice represented, never anticipating the miraculous extension of their love. The audience’s shock was mirrored by Marshall’s genuine surprise, making the onscreen moment even more impactful for her. It was a secret so tightly held that only one cast member, Tiya Sircar, was privy to its contents for a full year leading up to the finale.
Sircar recounted the immense pressure of keeping such a pivotal plot point under wraps. As the epilogue’s narrator, Sircar had recorded the voiceover a full year prior to Disney screening the finale. “That was the hardest. That was the hardest secret to keep,” she shared with regard to the Jacen revelation. The anticipation built to a fever pitch for Sircar as the day of the cast screening approached. She knew the emotional rollercoaster Marshall was about to experience. “And I remember Vanessa was a few rows ahead of me, and I had been waiting a year, knowing that her brain was going to explode when she found out about their child. And I remember watching it in this darkened theater. I wasn’t watching the screen. I was watching Vanessa to see what her reaction was, and she burst into tears.” Sircar’s story perfectly encapsulates the unique dynamic of the Rebels cast – a genuine family, both on and off-screen.
Read the interview in full here, tune-in to Pod of Rebellion weekly, and stream Star Wars Rebels on Disney+.
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