Star Wars: Ming-Na Wen from The Bad Batch on the return of the bounty hunter Fennec Shand

Star Wars: Ming-Na Wen from The Bad Batch on the return of the bounty hunter Fennec Shand
Spoilers for the latest episode of Star Wars: The Batch are below. "Any story about it fascinates me," he adds. "I had created this whole fantasy story for her, because I thought she was only meant to be in one episode of The Mandalorian. Now I'm very curious. Dave Filoni and the other writers will come up with. When you're a bounty hunter in a galaxy very, very far away, it's not difficult to make a good impression.IG-88, Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM and Dengar appear at the comb in L'empire contre-attaque, mais ces assassins silencieux sont devenus des figures incontournables de la pègre de Star Wars après être apparus dans le sadment célèbre line-up of Darth Vader. Even Boba Fett only spoke four lines of dialogue before he became the superstar of the Mercenary Universe. When Agents of SHIELD and Mulan star Ming-Na Wen appeared as Fennec Shand in an episode of The Mandalorian season 1, she instantly became a worthy heir to her scum and lineage made of. Being left for dead at the end of "The Gunslinger" wasn't enough to get in the way of her either. way, as Shand has proven that all assassins deserve a second strike upon their return (with cybernetic enhancements). In the second season of the series. . She will also appear alongside Fett in the upcoming Disney Plus spinoff, The Book of Boba Fett. In the meantime, though, we get a glimpse into Fennec Shand's early years thanks to The Bad Batch. In the follow-up to The Clone Wars, which takes place in the early days of the Galactic Empire, she is a recruiting bounty hunter on the trail of Omega, a young clone girl under the protection of a team of skilled clone troopers. she that she challenged the Emperor's Jedi. extermination order 66. "It's Fennec Shand, like 20 years younger," Ming-Na Wen tells us on Zoom. "So, who was she as a young Fennec and how did she become a bounty hunter? "I'm curious as to why she became a bounty hunter at such a young age. Was she an orphan? Did she grow up in a bad family situation? How did she learn her skills? abilities and who taught it? Also, I don't think I'm wrong about that (editor's note: we checked, and it's not), in The Bad Batch, Fennec Shand didn't have a scar. So I'm really interested in how he got this scar ".

Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian season 2

Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand lives in The Mandalorian season 2. (Credit Image: © 2020 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved.)

The omega factor

Fennec Shand had his first tangle with the namesake Bad Batch in the series' fourth episode, "Cornered", when the mercenary attempted to capture Omega on the planet Pantora. While this mission failed, Fennec is back on the clone trail in Episode 9, "Bounty Lost" (available now on Disney Plus), crossing both the Bad Batch and the infamous Cad Bane, a premium Duros hunter who he took styling tips from Clint Eastwood. However, despite Shand's questionable motives, she is eager to make Omega, her young target, believe that he is on her side. “I think at the end of the day, Fennec is quite a mercenary character,” Ming-Na explains. “She really wants to take care of herself, so even when she's helping Omega, or when she seems like she's making friends with her, it's with an ulterior motive. She does everything she does, she's very cunning, she adapts very well and I think that's why she's such a good bounty hunter. She knows how to read people, she knows how to scare them and trust them. I don't know if she was very uninterested in what she was doing with Omega-I'm glad you thought she was because she does a great job! Anyone familiar with Star Wars lore will have noticed the connection between Omega and Boba Fett, Shand's future savior and partner in crime, as both are clones created on the world of Kamino. However, when we ask if we should look for Fett's connections in The Bad Batch, she mentions the secret force field she perfected in Agents of SHIELD. "That's a good question, I wish I could answer it," she laughs. “I've had years of training with Marvel, it's probably in my DNA now. I think I've become that friend you can tell everything to and I can keep your secrets in my grave. "I guess the only way to answer your question is that obviously Fennec loves Boba Fett because he saved her, but at the same time he probably doesn't like him because he saved her, and now she owes him this huge debt. There's something. She's great when she obeys the code, so she's honorable in that sense. And to me that says a lot about her integrity, so maybe there's something about her that's genuinely grounded and trustworthy. Maybe there's a good person underneath All those killer killers you have, if that's even possible? The best Disney+ deals and bundles of the day

The bad lot

Can Bad Batch be one step ahead of Fennec Shand? (Image credit: Lucasfilm / Disney Plus)

Go alone

Where Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze started out as animated characters in The Clone Wars before appearing in The Mandalorian, Fennec Shand has evolved in the opposite direction. Unsurprisingly, Ming-Na says that the experience of the voiceover is very different from the live adventures of him. "Physically, it's definitely a lot easier," she admits. “I don't have to spend two hours doing my hair, it's a very elaborate hairstyle, and I don't have to sweat in my four-layer leather outfit with boots and gloves. I don't have to do any stunts either, so this part is really cool. "The only thing about voice-over work is that for an actor it's usually a very lonely job, because you're actually in the studio with the producers, the directors, or the writers, and none of the other actors. Bad Batch, in en particular it was unique because of covid they sent me the audio equipment and the computer and everything and i put it in my closet and recorded all my lines with the directors on zoom it's really amazing how far our technology has come to the point where you could take on a major project like this and still get high quality sound from inside my closet!Another perk of working in animation is that there is almost no limit to the iconic characters Fennec Shand could encounter as he makes his way across the galaxy, just about anyone who's alive.By the end of Revenge of the Sith you could find yourself on your way to monuments.“Oh my gosh, can you imagine if Fennec meets Han Solo,” Ming-Na said, turning on the fan mode for a moment. "I would go crazy! If I'm in the same room, with the trio of Luke, Han, and Leia, I'd be crazy. I'm about to cry right now, just thinking about it as a possibility. Dave, are you listening?! "New episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch debut on Disney Plus every Friday.