'Star Wars' show 'Acolyte' merges murder mystery with family drama

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) For Amandla Stenberg, the Star Wars franchise is about how trauma affects everyone and how the inability to accept and process it makes people more vulnerable to corruption...

The Hunger Games actor stars in the new eight-episode Star Wars series The Acolyte on Disney+ as Mae, a character with complicated family problems and a strong connection to the Force...

Well, the show is anchored in a murder mystery, for one, and you layer that with the action of the lightsaber fights, you layer that with the practicality of the sets, I think all of these elements combine to just offer something different for the fans, Jacinto said in an interview at the shows premiere...

The show reveals a different iteration of the Force than that which the Jedi use, a form used by a coven of witches from the planet Brendock, who raised Mae...

As far as the witches of Brendock are concerned, the Jedi dont necessarily feel that they should be using The Force, right? said Jodie Turner-Smith, who plays Maes mother, Aniseya, who is known for the movie Queen & Slim...

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