The Mandalorian & Grogu's Sigourney Weaver on Grogu Stealing Her Heart and More - Star Wars Celebration

Sigourney Weaver was a large portion of The Mandalorian & Grogu sheet astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025 and IGN had the accidental to talk with her astir her caller character, however she hadn’t watched an occurrence of The Mandalorian earlier being cast, however Grogu stole her heart, and adjacent if she thinks Grogu is much almighty than a Xenomorph.

The Mandalorian & Grogu is acceptable to beryllium released successful theaters connected May 22, 2026, and we anticipation this interrogation volition assistance with the hold and springiness you immoderate penetration into 1 of the newest characters to articulation that beloved postulation far, acold away.

Sigourney Weaver astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025.

IGN: Sigourney, convey you truthful overmuch for joining us! We were thrilled to spot your quality successful The Mandalorian & Grogu panel, and it looks similar she was possibly wearing a Rebel aviator uniform? What tin you archer america astir your quality astatine this point?

Sigourney Weaver: Well, she was wearing a rebel aviator uniform, and that's however she came up. And now, of course, she's inactive a aviator and is 1 of the radical moving to support the New Republic. She's really retired successful the Outer Rim wherever determination are vestiges of the Empire, truthful she needs idiosyncratic similar the Mandalorian and his faithful companion.

IGN: We heard that your emotion of Grogu was 1 of the reasons you decided to instrumentality connected this role, truthful what was it similar to really enactment with him?

Weaver: Grogu is precise mischievous. I'm definite that won't astonishment you. It's comic because, successful each country with Grogu, determination were respective puppeteers who each helped him bash a antithetic thing. However, nary substance however galore puppeteers were astir him, each I saw was Grogu. I inactive deliberation he's real.

IGN: You’ve worked with a batch of antithetic kinds of aliens successful your career, from Xenomorphs to Na’vi. What was it similar moving with those successful examination to Grogu?

Weaver: He's decidedly the cutest. I mean, if Xenomorphs are determination present and Slimer is implicit here, Grogu is mode implicit the line. I deliberation the Japanese telephone it Kawaii!

IGN: So, you said successful the sheet that you hadn't seen The Mandalorian earlier you started moving connected this. That means I person to ask, what was it similar yet watching each those episodes?

Weaver: I consciousness truthful fortunate due to the fact that Jon Favreau wasn't like, ‘You've got to commencement watching this!’ I was conscionable thrilled to bash it and enactment with Jon connected a Star Wars project. And adjacent from the archetypal episode, I felt that it was a large concept. It was a truly bully aged Western with a fewer surprises, and I conscionable recovered it charming and a large mode for maine to benignant of re-enter the Star Wars satellite due to the fact that there've been antithetic projects and I get confused astir what goes where.

So, this was a large benignant of standalone communicative that kept gathering and building, and I recovered Din Djarin and the small chap to beryllium fantastic characters alongside large atrocious guys similar Werner Herzog. The full time, I was like, ‘What was helium going to bash to the small creature?!’ We don't adjacent privation to deliberation astir it.

IGN: Love it. Now, looking forward, you're surely successful the footage that we saw this morning. We saw you sharing a country with Grogu and him utilizing his Force powers to effort to steal… was it similar a crockery of nutrient oregon something?

Weaver: Yes. It's a small vessel of snacks that were mine, and he's doing his small Force gestures, and I'm conscionable fortunate I got them back. I had to beryllium rather forceful.

IGN: Speaking of which, bash you get to spot Grogu usage his Force powers successful each their glory successful this movie?

Weaver: Well, he's ever trying to bash something. So, to the grade that I get to beryllium with him, I get to benignant of spot what helium does erstwhile he's much relaxed astatine the location base. However, I consciousness similar Grogu was benignant of transitioning from a small learning carnal to idiosyncratic who has existent skills. And indeed, helium is the apprentice now, and I felt that I could spot a large quality betwixt that successful the series.

IGN: I'm inactive precise funny successful however you came to this task and your acquisition with Star Wars successful general, dating backmost to the precise archetypal movie. Going done each of what we've seen truthful far. Do you person a favourite movie from the series?

Weaver: Yeah. I deliberation Rogue One. I truly liked Felicity Jones's character, and I'm gladsome that was the 1 I saw due to the fact that I deliberation of my procreation arsenic a subordinate of The Rebellion. I saw the different ones rather a portion agone and, I mean, it was fantastic to ticker them again due to the fact that you're benignant of going backmost to your childhood. It shows there's a mode successful for everybody backmost into Star Wars, and you tin support it going. It goes successful each directions. It's rather an astonishing thing.

IGN: Last question. Who is the astir almighty being successful the universe? Grogu oregon a Xenomorph?

Weaver: Well, it’s not that I don’t judge successful him, but I’m acrophobic it’s a Xenomorph.

IGN: Why bash you deliberation that is?

Weaver: Because helium can’t assistance himself. He conscionable has to instrumentality implicit and destruct and beforehand his group. And, what I cognize and retrieve of Yoda is that helium is excessively omniscient to bash each of that. He’s not a destructive being. He’s connected the broadside of bully and I deliberation Grogu is too, obviously.

IGN: And he’s conscionable excessively cute to beryllium each that threatening, right?

Weaver: Well, listen, if helium stayed with Werner Herzog, who knows what helium would person become?

For more, cheque retired our recap of each the biggest moments from The Mandalorian & Grogu panel, including that Ryan Gosling has officially been formed successful 2027’s Star Wars: Starfighter film.

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