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Moments from The Mandalorian and Grogu Panel at Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025
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Apr 19, 2025
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star Wars celebration
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chief Creative
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Officer Katherine Kennedy Sandes
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Welcome everyone to Star Wars
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Celebration oh my god this is so
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fantastic look at all the lightsabers
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absolutely great we are so thrilled to
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be here in Japan and marking the 16th
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Star Wars celebration i was lucky enough
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to be here back in 2008 the last time
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celebration took place in Japan and it's
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safe to say this event has grown
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spectacularly so thank you for being
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here it's you fans who make this
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community such a joy to be a part of and
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being here in Japan a place that
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provided so much inspiration for George
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Lucas and personally one of my favorite
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places in the world many of you know uh
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it just makes this celebration even more
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special being able to share in this
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communal experience one that brings
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people together from all over the world
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uh with our mutual passion for Star Wars
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is part of what keeps this franchise and
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this galaxy thriving please
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welcome Sean Levy
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i'm thrilled to be here and uh to be in
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a room of fans as someone who's been a
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lifelong fan is a dream come true for me
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not only as a filmmaker but just as a
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human being we started developing a
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movie and it was wide open as to what it
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would be but I wanted to tell you today
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this is no longer a Star Wars movie in
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development this is a Star Wars movie
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we're making this fall we start shooting
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this
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fall but this is a standalone adventure
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it's a standalone adventure that takes
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place a few years after the events of
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episode 9 i had heard at one point that
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my movie was going to star Ryan Gosling
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and um and believe me that would be
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dream come true for me so today I just
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wanted to tell you here in this room
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that that rumor is
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100% true
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very good very
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good very good very good
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i guess I was probably dreaming about
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Star Wars before I even saw the
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film and it's probably framed my idea of
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what a movie even was but all of that
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aside I think the reality is that this
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script is just so good it has such a
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great story with great and original
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characters it's filled with so much
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heart and adventure and there just
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really is not a more perfect filmmaker
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for this particular story than Shawn
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so Sean and Ryan we're so excited to
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have both of you a part of Star Wars but
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don't you have a star fighter to catch
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yeah I guess we should tokyo thank you
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for this incredible welcome thank you
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hi guys
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all right
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John Favro
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hi how's it going
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welcome
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excellent wow wow wow welcome everybody
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to Japan and welcome John this is your
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first Star Wars celebration in Japan
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how's it been so far oh I It's fantastic
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i I love it here when I think about Star
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Wars and what inspired Star Wars it's so
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inextricably tied to Japanese cinema
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Japanese culture and tradition george
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Lucas was very inspired by the
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filmmakers of uh of Japan and uh to come
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back here to see the beautiful artwork
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if you've looked around on the shirts
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and on the posters it feels like a a a
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coming home there's some people that we
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that work at the parks at Disneyland
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that that decided to come do you guys
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can we have some friends come out and uh
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say hello to all of uh all the fans out
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here here we go come on we got some new
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faces in the show
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oh my god
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no good no good
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how's it go one of them's getting worked
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on
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oh no hello
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we're in Japan there you go you want to
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bow bow to the audience say hello
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yeah yeah
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hey hey hey
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please welcome Signey
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Weaver look over there look over there
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look over there
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all
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right Pedro Pasco
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i'll never forget the the first day that
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I got to sit down with John and and and
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Dave in in in the writer room and and
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they showed me you know uh wallto-wall
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story illustrations of the first season
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of of Mandalorian without me even
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understanding who they expected me to
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play and um and I I remember just seeing
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um the the the greatest sort of visual
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story boards that I had ever seen and
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knowing that people were going to lose
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their minds and so I I I to answer your
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question did I feel like people would
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connect yeah I I did i I knew they would
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because of these guys can you tell us
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how you came to be part of this film
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please
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i got really lucky
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yeah they're like And I just want to say
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what a thrill it is to see all of you
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here it is so inspiring and it's always
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good to be reminded of why you're doing
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it and it's for all of you thank you
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um I fell in love with all the
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characters but especially this man and
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well there's somebody else you fell in
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love with yes and I and may I just say
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that um of
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course Grou like all of you stole my
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heart and you know I just saw him in the
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green
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room he looks a little nervous but I bet
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he'd like to come out here
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wow
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ro
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oh my god he's excited
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enjoy the rest of Star Wars celebration
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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