Rosario Dawson Surprised by Mark Hamill's Return as Luke Skywalker on 'The Mandalorian' Set

Mark Hamill's appearance as Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian was a monumental surprise in the Star Wars saga, and Rosario Dawson shared with us at Star Wars Celebration an amusing tale of how she was left in the dark about his cameo until he unexpectedly appeared on the set of The Book of Boba Fett.

It's well-known that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau employed Jedi Master Plo Koon as a clever decoy to keep Luke's cameo under wraps. Yet, during our conversation, they also recounted the humorous incident where Dawson experienced one of the most surprising moments of her career due to an oversight that left her uninformed about the true nature of the scene.

To maintain the secrecy of this major plot twist, the scripts that included Luke Skywalker substituted him with Plo Koon. This was a tactic to prevent leaks, and Dawson was just as baffled by the script as any dedicated Star Wars fan would be, given Plo Koon's apparent demise in Revenge of the Sith.

"I was like... I don't know... but people disappear and then they come back, so maybe it's possible?" Dawson remarked. "And then Mark Hamill was on set and surprised me and it was a whole thing. He even said, 'Plo Koon? That wouldn't even make sense!' and I'm like, 'I know it didn't make sense, but I still had to think it made sense because I got the script and everything!' "

Favreau and Filoni expressed their regret over not informing her earlier, with Favreau admitting, "That was bad on us!"

"I think we assumed you'd gotten told the right information," Filoni added with a chuckle. "We were in it so much."

"There were two secrets we knew we had to keep on the show," Favreau explained. "One was Grogu's reveal at the end of the first episode, and the other one was Luke Skywalker at the end of season two. We were biting our nails all the way the whole way through, and we somehow miraculously made it cleanly to both of those because everything else leaked. But, unfortunately, we didn't fill in our partner here."

Dawson took it in stride, jokingly saying, "I love it, they know I can't be trusted."