‘Mandalorian’ star Giancarlo Esposito broke 6 lightsabers while filming

He really broke his way into the franchise.

“The Mandalorian” actor Giancarlo Esposito revealed Monday that he was a bit clumsy with iconic “Star Wars” props while filming a fight scene during the show’s second season.

“I did break six lightsabers,” Esposito, 64, said during an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”

“The prop guy comes to me on the fifth one, and he’s sweating because he’s not telling anyone that I’m breaking them. He’s just shoving them away,” continued the “Breaking Bad” star.

“He comes over to me and says, ‘I just want you to know I just have one more. You gotta be careful,’” said Esposito. “Because you want to pull your shots. You want to be really careful, but you have to make it look good. We made it through and I got a great, great, great scene and I learned a lot.”

Esposito, who plays the villainous Moff Gideon, said that he initially approached director Jon Favreau about doing his own stunts due to the action double not looking like him.

“I was standing there and I had a stunt double come out, and he was 25 years younger and is standing like this,” said the actor while hunching his shoulders. “Very nice boy, but how is that gonna work? You never see his face but my body is very different.”

“So Jon went, ‘Hmm, you got a point there,’” continued Esposito. “And I said, before he could finish his sentence, ‘I’m doing the fight.’”

Giancarlo Esposito revealed Monday that he once broke six lightsabers while filming a fight scene during the second season of “The Mandalorian.”
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Esposito, who plays the villainous Moff Gideon, said that he initially approached director Jon Favreau about doing his own stunts due to the stunt double not looking like him.
Esposito, who plays the villainous Moff Gideon in the show, said that he initially approached director Jon Favreau about doing his own stunts.
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The scene Esposito referenced took place during the show’s climatic Season 2 finale, in which Gideon uses his special lightsaber — known in the “Star Wars” universe as the Dark Saber — against Din Djarin (played by Pedro Pascal).

The Season 3 finale of “The Mandalorian” is set to drop out of Hyperspace Wednesday, April 19, on Disney+.

While on Clarkon’s show, the “Better Call Saul” actor revealed that during filming, he accidentally fell.

“I missed blocking him this way. He came over the top, he hit me — bang — on my forehead. I went backward,” recalled Esposito. “The whole room stopped. Slow motion. I’m falling backward.

“And I hit the ground and I went, ‘Do not cut.’ And I jumped up with my lightsaber,” added Esposito.


The scene Esposito (right) is referencing takes place during the show's climatic season two finale where Gideon uses his special lightsaber — known in the "Star Wars" universe as the Dark Saber — against Din Djarin (left)(played by Pedro Pascal).
The scene Esposito referenced took place during the show’s climatic Season 2 finale, in which his character Gideon uses his special lightsaber against Din Djarin.
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"I did break six lightsabers," Esposito, 64, said. "The prop guy comes to me on the fifth one, and he's sweating because he's not telling anyone that I'm breaking them. He's just shoving them away."
“I did break six lightsabers,” Esposito, 64, said. “The prop guy comes to me on the fifth one, and he’s sweating because he’s not telling anyone that I’m breaking them. He’s just shoving them away.”
©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection

“You’re like Beyoncé, like how she is onstage,” responded Clarkson, 40, with a laugh. “Like, it’s not over, my hair’s in the fan, I’m still going — like, I love it.”

Esposito agreed, saying that it was “pretty great.”

“The room gasped but they kept going, and someone said to me, ‘You know what? It was a great fight.’”

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