“I was bawling my eyes out when I read it,” says Cruz.
Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutWillowepisode 5.
Though showrunnerJonathan Kasdandid previously tell EW thathe received no pushbackwhatsoever from Disney or Lucasfilm over the storyline.
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To be able to bring both of those aspects together was a really great moment."
I’m just an emotional person."
“I remember reading it in my apartment,” she continues.
“I was across the hall from Erin.
We were living across from each other.
And both of us freaking out over it.
“Me and Ruby had read it already, and we lost our s—.
But we were all reading it live together, doing a table read, and it was pretty calm.
Then the energy got so tense and live when the scene started happening.”
“Everybody was screaming and shouting,” Kellyman continues.
“She wanted to give our characters and us the privacy that we needed,” Cruz says.
“She created a closed set for these characters to be able to be really vulnerable with each other.
That was really helpful.”
But Lowthorpe made sure they shot the more intimate scenes first.
Episode 5 also came with a revelation for Jade that could prove a sticking point for her and Kit.
But Kellyman is optimistic it won’t prove too much of a speed-bump.
“Jade is a strong believer that they’re different people,” she reflects.
“They’re not their fathers and they run things differently now.
It’s not directly Kit’s fault that that happened; it’s just something that happened.
Kit is going through a whole different thing in dealing with her father as well.
They both have difficult home lives, so maybe it could bring them together.
She definitely wouldn’t hold that against Kit.”
“Jade pushes all of her feelings and emotions down,” reflects Kellyman.
You have to have that boundary in between you.
It stems from that and also like thinking that her family had been killed.
She doesn’t know anybody that can relate to that.
It’s just a really sad fact.
So, she gets used to pushing everything down.”
“I don’t think it changes here,” she continues.
“She finds out that she’s a Bone Reaver, and you see her change a little bit.
She doesn’t really cope or deal with the fact that Sorsha’s lied to her.”
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