Fans of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian might not have recognized the performer portraying Koska Reeves during the show’s second season, but wrestling fans know The Boss when they see her.
While appearing on the Ahch-To Radio podcast, Sasha Banks talked about how she was able to incorporate some wrestling moves into her guest role for the show, even hitting the legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett with a tornado DDT.
You can read highlights of Banks’ appearance below:
On how she came to use the Tornado DDT: “They brought me in for rehearsals, they told me that they wanted me to do an arm drag or a headlock takeover. They went over and I was like, ‘Oh, first of all, that’s the wrong way that we do headlock takeovers, that’s the wrong side.’ I was just looking at the pillar of the wall. I was just looking at Boba and I was like, ‘I think I can do something better.’ So I just took the guy by the head, and I’m like, ‘Just hold my hips. I’m going to run up this wall and we’re going to flip, and I’m going to DDT you.’ We rehearsed it, we did it, and then Jon Favreau [director of the series] came out of the back, and was just like, ‘That was good. That’s what we’re going to do. That’s what we’re gonna shoot. That’s the shot.'”
On her excitement about contributing to the show: “I just remember such excitement for when he came up behind the set and just was, like, overjoyed that I brought even more to the table because I was so afraid to even speak up. This is Star Wars, they know what they want to do. They have their stunt team, they have their stunt doubles, they have their fight coordinators, and they put in so much time to create every scene and to create every fight to make sure that it’s doable, that it’s sustainable, that it can be that good on television.”
On how she felt filming the fight scenes: “So me coming in, I’m just like, ‘Okay, it’s cool. An arm drag is cool, a headlock is cool, but I think fans will like this a little bit better if I can add a little bit more professional wrestling into it.’ So when I finally got to do that DDT it was just like, it felt so cool to bring that sense of the wrestling world to Star Wars and to see how the excitement was when it finally got to show to the world, flipping Boba, just be in my element. Like that was the one scene that I was just like, ‘I got this, all the fighting stuff.’ Going through the table. I’m like, that’s, that’s just my realm, my element. So I got such an adrenaline rush doing that.”
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