You know it's a good Star Wars show when we're all still talking about it over a month after its finale has aired. While there are many wonderful things about Disney+'s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, it's the kids -- both the characters and the actors who play them -- that truly make the series something special. Thanks to a recent MEGACon panel, we have a little more insight into the magic that made the show so spectacular.
During the panel, Kyriana Kratter (who portrayed KB in the show) credited series co-creator Jon Watts with making so much of this magic happen. Creative freedom can make or break a project, and in the case of Skeleton Crew, it seems to have definitely made it.
“Jon Watts gave us a lot of creative freedom to kind of create the character and make it our own," she said, noting that she and the other actors even got to use other Star Wars characters to inspire theirs.
Throughout the series, I constantly found myself amazed at how good these actors were, and that rings even more true knowing they had a lot of say in how they played their characters. There are a lot of good younger actors out there, but you just never know how an actor's performance is going to translate in a show like this. It's largely because of how involved they got to be in the development of these original characters that they all shone so brightly from episode to episode.
It was absolutely the right choice to let these characters grow with their actors as they figured out who they were going to be and how that was going to come across on screen. I'm not going to say we need a second season or demand that these characters show up again in other projects, but I also wouldn't be mad about either (or both). When you have a good thing, take that good and make it even better! Just don't overdo it and you're set.