Actor Jon Favreau Speaks Mandalorian

“The Man­dalo­ri­ans are all New Yorkers.”

Jokes from the actor aside, part one of the three-episode story begins at 9:00pm (East­ern and Pacific) this Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 29th on the Car­toon Net­work. Actor Jon Favreau voices Pre Vizsla, a Man­dalo­rian in the sto­ry­line for episode “The Man­dalore Plot.”

From April MacIntyre’s arti­cle on MonstersAndCritics.com:

[Favreau’s] involve­ment in The Clone Wars came as an indi­rect result of post-production for the first Iron Man film; he was work­ing with Indus­trial Light & Magic and Sky­walker Sound when his path crossed with [Super­vis­ing Direc­tor Dave] Filoni’s at Lucasfilm’s Sky­walker Ranch.

“I had men­tioned that I would love to do a voice, and that I’d done voices before – and the idea for me to play a Man­dalo­rian came up. I wasn’t hold­ing out for a cool char­ac­ter, but I think the Man­dalo­ri­ans are prob­a­bly the ones that the die-hards are going to be the most curi­ous about,” says Favreau.

“I grew up a fan of Star Wars. It was the first time I had ever expe­ri­enced that really iconic, mythic arche­typal sto­ry­telling. What’s fun about Star Wars is that it still has as much rel­e­vance and impact now as it did then. It seems to be a set of char­ac­ters and a world that is time­less, and every gen­er­a­tion seems to embrace. So it’s fun to be able to share with my fam­ily and my kids the excite­ment that I had when I was young.”

JediMaster.com.bk posted a video on YouTube:

(Pic­tures thanks to BigFanBoy.com.)