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Celebration Japan 2025, the planet’s biggest Star Wars fan event/rolling press conference, has been running for a couple of days at this point, giving franchise fans plenty of glimpses of new films, animated projects, and Dave Filoni’s latest experiment in being a guy who always wears a hat that’s slightly too big. Now, it’s also been revealed that Hayden Christensen is set to make his third appearance in the Disney era of Star Wars, revealing that he’ll return as Anakin Skywalker for the second season of Ahsoka.
After a nearly two-decade absence from the franchise, Christensen returned to Star Wars in 2022 for Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, set during a time when Anakin is still alive (albeit as Darth Vader), and then the first season of Ahsoka, where he’s definitely not. (The series is set after Return Of The Jedi, and serves in part as a live-action sequel to Filoni’s animated Star Wars: Rebels.) It kind of, sort of, seemed like the series might be done with him at this point—he appears to Rosario Dawson’s former Jedi trainee Ahsoka in a mystical vision to finish her training, then ends the series watching over her fondly—but, well, not so much.
Christensen (who was on hand for the event) wasn’t the only big Ahsoka casting news to come out of Celebration: Deadline reports that Filoni also revealed that Game Of Thrones star Rory McCann has been set to appear in the second season as the fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll, who was played by Ray Stevenson in the first season. (Stevenson died in 2023, a few months before the series premiered.) Filoni said that he’d spoken with Stevenson’s family about the decision, noting that, “I understood what to do, it just took a while to get there. I’m very confident now that Ray would be happy with the direction that we’ve chosen.”
Ahsoka‘s second season is set to go into production next week.
