The Mandalorian season 3 starts filming "soon," according to Giancarlo Esposito

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The Mandalorian season 3 starts filming "soon," Moff Gideon actor Giancarlo Esposito has said.

"They just finished shooting Boba Fett, and soon they will start on season 3 of Mandalorian," Esposito said at GalaxyCon (H/T WRAL).

The doer also explained that the serial publication didn't have to wait for Pedro Pascal, who is currently filming The Last of US TV show. "I don't know what Pedro's up to. We never cause to attend to Pedro," Esposito commented. Pascal plays the HBO present's contribute character Joel, with Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey depicting Ellie. Product is reportedly adjust to run until June 2022, merely Eastern Samoa Din Djarin's face is often hidden behind his Beskar helmet, filming on The Mandalorian can keep justified if Pascal isn't on set.

As for whether Gideon will be back in flavor 3, Esposito joked: "Yes, you'ray expiration to see me kill this baby. [Laughs] How about that? Information technology's totally wrong, but you experience what, I've got to hold out somewhere that I'm passing to win."

In the season 2 finale, Gideon was taken prisoner by Mando and conscientious objector. after kidnapping Baby Yoda earlier in the series. While Din rescued his diminutive green charge, Grogu ended dormy going off with Luke Skywalker for Jedi training – which could be revisited in flavour 3, because Esposito also titillated that the Child has a significant power. "I am passing to get this child, and it's for a very different reason than many people think," the actor said. "This nestling has magic powers, 50 years old, and can see the hereafter, and we deprivation everyone to know, eventually on this show, that this child could save our cosmos."

The Mandalorian season 3 is presently shrouded in secrecy, but a new report suggests that The Book of Boba Fett bequeath cost like "The Mandalorian time of year 2.5," with Mando characters appearing in the spinoff. That means we could be seeing Din Djarin sooner than expected, likewise as possibly characters like Bo-Katan Kryze or Ahsoka Tano.

The Book of Boba Fett arrives at the close of this year. While you wait, check exterior our guide to all the upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows – including Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor.

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