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The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland has a lot to hang her hat on for putting together the ambitious dark Star Wars series that saw the rise of a Sith and his new apprentice by the finale, as the title suggests, and the fall of four Jedi. Qimir, also known as The Stranger (Manny Jacinto), was able to take[...]

During the final two episodes of season one of The Acolyte, Osha (Amandla Stenberg) had a crash course in exploring the Dark Side with Qimir/The Stranger (Manny Jacinto) As Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) finally revealed the truth in their final confrontation about what happened to her mother, Osha unleashed her newly uncovered Dark Side[...]

The circle is complete with The Acolyte season finale under wraps and no word on a possible season two. The finale, also titled "The Acolyte," saw Sol (Lee Jung-jae), the final of the four Jedi that visited Mae & Osha (Amandla Stenberg) 16 years ago in Brendok, fall at the hands of his former apprentice after[...]

From the first episode on, it went beyond a simple murder mystery as we discover the tale of Osha and Mae (both played by Amandla Stenberg), twins separated from their home planet of Brendok, one thinking the other was dead Osha is driven by guilt looking for a simpler life, and Mae is driven by[...]

At the end of last week's episode of Lucasfilm and Disney+'s The Acolyte, we found Mae (Amandla Stenberg) desperate to escape from her former master Qimir (Manny Jacinto) – also known as The Stranger, sensing doubt within her Cutting her hair and swapping clothes with her twin Osha (Stenberg), she flees with Jedi Master Sol[...]

The Acolyte went beyond what I thought was a crime drama set in a Star Wars setting on the latest episode "Night." In the previous episode, "Day," we discover Mae (Amandla Stenberg)is beginning to have second thoughts about her dark mission As we pan to the other party, her twin sister Osha (Stenberg) is approached[...]

Action returns to the present in the latest episode of The Acolyte, which sees Amandla Stenberg's characters Mae and Osha at another crossroad as Mae is targeting her next Jedi in the Wookie, Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo), who's living in isolation inside a forest on the planet Khofar Joining Mae is her associate, Qimir (Manny Jacinto),[...]

Long before audiences saw Amandla Stenberg make their debut on the Disney+ series The Acolyte, the actor, who plays twins Osha and Mae, stumbled upon a mysterious discovery among the Star Wars fandom during Celebration 2023 Appearing on The Tonight Show, Stenberg shared a story about crashing a furry dance party while wearing a bunny[...]

While promoting the Star Wars series The Acolyte, the only details of Amandla Stenberg's role were that of Mae, the vengeful assassin who has an ax to grind against the Jedi At this point, consider this "MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!" territory, so consider yourself warned What creator Leslye Headland and Stenberg didn't expect the big reveal[...]

Leading the way is Amandla Stenberg, who's playing both sides of the spectrum as Osha, an engineer and mechanic trying to make an honest living, and her twin sister Mae, someone with more sinister intentions, both have pasts once tied to the Jedi Order, but left in different paths. Mae (Amandla Stenberg) in Lucasfilm's THE ACOLYTE, exclusively[...]

Not since The Mandalorian has there been another live-action Star Wars series without an established character as the lead, but with the premiere of The Acolyte on Disney+, that's going to change with Amandla Stenberg, who plays twin sisters Osha and Mae, one is a former Padawan learner that Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is[...]

Set at the end of the High Republic era, 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, a respective Jedi Master, Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is investigating a series of crimes that bring him into conflict with a former Padawan learner, Mae (Amandla Stenberg) and reveal sinister forces Stenberg opened up on what little she[...]

She meets Jonny, played by Amandla Stenberg (Star Wars: The Acolyte), an alluring but tormented figure skater As the two discover their love for one another, Heather has to deal not only with the pressures to perform as an athlete but also with her alcoholic mother at home and hide her sexuality in the small[...]

Two of the stars of the series, Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae, along with showrunner Leslye Headland, spoke with Entertainment Weekly (prior to the WGA and SAG strikes) about what to expect from seeing a Star Wars project with the "war." STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE (Image: Lucasfilm) "The Acolyte stands out because it is the earliest in[...]

She falls in love with newcomer Jonny (Amandla Stenberg), an alluring but tormented figure skater Heather battles multiple obstacles, including the pressures of excelling as an athlete, her struggling home life with an alcoholic mother, and coming to grips with her sexuality that conflicts with her town's conservative values While promoting the film for Sundance,[...]

As Star Wars fans clamor for content that predates the prequels, Disney obliged in their upcoming live-action series The Acolyte, and anchoring the series will be Amandla Stenberg, the franchise Twitter account confirmed The series will be set a century before the events of 1999's The Phantom Menace It promises to depict the galaxy at[...]

Julianne Moore and Amy Adams shine as the mothers of two of our main characters, and Kaitlyn Dever and Amandla Stenberg bring a lot of pathos to their roles Moore's number in the film's second act is one of the only times the movie really feels human. Interfering with that humanity is the much-vaunted age of[...]

Amandla Stenberg is best known for her role in The Hunger Games. But we also reported she was working on a prose novel Niobe with author and publisher Sebastian A Jones, a fellow we've been following for a few years, as part of his wider fantasy work. But it seems that the planned novel is now a comic book, with Chicago artist Ashley A[...]

Jones, and Amandla Stenberg. There are many fascinating characters that reside in the world Asunda, created by Sebastian A Jones One of those characters is Niobe Ayutami, a half Wild Elf, half Elf teenager who we're first introduced to in The Untamed: A Sinner's Prayer from Stranger Comics In a gritty, brutal fantasy world, Niobe is[...]