Rosario Dawson Surprised by Mark Hamill's Return as Luke in The Mandalorian - Star Wars Celebration

Mark Hamill's appearance as Luke Skywalker in *The Mandalorian* stands as one of the most thrilling surprises in the *Star Wars* saga. Rosario Dawson shared with us at Star Wars Celebration that she was completely in the dark about Hamill's cameo until he unexpectedly walked onto the set of *The Book of Boba Fett*.

It's no secret that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau cleverly used Jedi Master Plo Koon as a decoy to conceal Luke's cameo. However, during our conversation, they also recounted the amusing tale of how Dawson experienced one of the biggest surprises of her career due to an accidental oversight in communication.

To keep the monumental secret under wraps, the scripts that featured Luke Skywalker substituted him with Plo Koon, and Dawson was not exempt from this strategy to prevent leaks. She recounted her confusion upon reading about Plo Koon's supposed return in the script for *The Book of Boba Fett*, a plot twist that would have puzzled any *Star Wars* fan given Plo Koon's demise in *Revenge of the Sith*.

"I was like... I don't know... but people disappear and then they come back, so maybe it's possible?" Dawson mused. "And then Mark Hamill was on set and surprised me and it was a whole thing. He even said, 'Plo Koon? That wouldn't even make sense!' and I'm like, 'I know it didn't make sense, but I still had to think it made sense because I got the script and everything!'

Favreau and Filoni immediately expressed their regret over the mix-up, saying, "That was bad on us!"

"I think we assumed you'd gotten told the right information," Filoni added with a laugh. "We were in it so much."

"There were two secrets we knew we had to keep on the show," Favreau explained. "One was Grogu's reveal at the end of the first episode, and the other one was Luke Skywalker at the end of season two. We were biting our nails all the way through, and we somehow miraculously made it cleanly to both of those because everything else leaked. But, unfortunately, we didn't fill in our partner here."

Dawson took it in stride, laughing and saying, "I love it, they know I can't be trusted."