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Jodie Turner-Smith mightiness person booked a summons to a postulation far, acold away.
The Queen & Slim prima is finalizing a woody to look successful the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte, according to Deadline.
Details astir the series—including Turner-Smith's role—remain scarce, but we bash cognize that The Acolyte volition prima The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg.
E! News reached retired to reps for Turner-Smith, Lucasfilm and Disney+ for comment, but did not perceive back.
Showrunner Leslye Headland, who co-created Netflix's Russian Doll, told Vanity Fair that the bid volition "take a look astatine the governmental and idiosyncratic and spiritual things that came up successful a clip play that we don't cognize overmuch about."
Headland said the bid volition instrumentality spot astir 100 years earlier the events of 1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
"My question erstwhile watching The Phantom Menace was ever like, ‘Well, however did things get to this point?'" Headland teased. "How did we get to a constituent wherever a Sith lord tin infiltrate the Senate and nary of the Jedi prime up connected it? Like, what went wrong? What are the scenarios that led america to this moment?"
We can't hold to find out!
Headland besides said the bid volition situation immoderate preconceived notions you mightiness person astir Jedis.
"The Jedi uniforms are golden and white, and it's astir similar they would ne'er get dirty. They would ne'er beryllium retired and about," she said. "The thought is that they could person these types of uniforms due to the fact that that's however small they're getting into skirmishes."
In summation to her breakout relation successful 2019's Queen & Slim, Turner-Smith has appeared successful movies similar 2021's Without Remorse and the 2021 television adaptation of Anne Boleyn.
She tin adjacent beryllium seen alongside Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig successful Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which hits theaters Nov. 25 earlier premiering connected Netflix Dec. 30.
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Star Wars: The Acolyte is expected to statesman accumulation this autumn successful London.
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