Giancarlo Esposito Reveals 1 Request He Had Joining The Mandalorian [Video]

Giancarlo Esposito is revealing how he prepared for The Mandalorian.

During his panel at Comic-Con in Los Angeles on Oct. 5, Esposito opened up about the research he did before filming began. When asked who and what influenced his role, he revealed he took notes from several people.

“I went back and I watched Peter Cushing‘s performance — his Grand Moff performance was very interesting to me,” he explained. “I went back and looked at James Earl Jones because that was just inspiration to me, how he held himself, how he carried himself underneath that grand and very graceful costume. It took a long time for me to even start to think that I was kind of a modern-day Darth Vader.”

“I didn’t know much and I wanted to sort of figure it out,” the actor, 66, continued. “So I went back and looked. I went back and read. I talked to [Jon] Favreauand Dave Filoni who …