Rosario Dawson Says She Insisted on Training 7 Days a Week for ‘Ahsoka’

“They wanted me to take weekends off. And I was like ‘absolutely not!'” the actress says of her training regimen

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Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) duel in "Ahsoka" (Credit: Lucasfilm)

Disney’s + latest Star Wars series “Ahsoka” puts the action in live action.

The title character, played by Rosario Dawson, has found herself in lightsaber battles in nearly every episode, facing off against assassin droids, the inquisitor Marrok, Baylan Skoll and even her former Jedi master Anakin Skywalker.

In an interview with TheWrap conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Dawson talked about the physicality of the role and the intense training that she underwent to play a former Jedi.

“This character is so physical,” Dawson explained. “And so the training was really important to me. I wanted to train seven days a week.

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