Katee Sackhoff, who played Bo-Katan Kryze on "
The Mandalorian", recently explained how the role “
just broke her” and led to a nearly three-year hiatus from onscreen acting roles.
“I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian. All of it,” she explained on her podcast The Sackhoff Show.
“I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. It always felt grounded in some part of my belly, of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants — I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her.”
“It broke me. It just broke me,” explained Sackhoff.
“I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.”
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