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The Mandalorian season 2 finale opened up a huge can of sandworms. The Mandalorian's first two seasons revolved around the bounty hunter protecting Baby Yoda and looking for its people. The reappearance of the hero and his cuddly green pal caps off an opening sequence that adds to the show’s long run of exhilarating action sequences with impressive monsters: some Mandalorians are enjoying a lakeside coming-of-age ceremony, but just as a boy is fitted with the armoured helmet that signifies he is now an adult, a gargantuan crocodile-like creature emerges from the water and starts eating the congregation. When all looks lost, Din Djarin zooms in and blasts the thing’s guts out. When asked about one of his favorite scenes, Wayne gave a spoiler-free overview of what he liked about an upcoming scene between Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin: Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. Lateef Crowder is an experienced stunt coordinator and performer, having previously worked on movies like Wonder Woman, Captain America: Civil War, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Crowder is particularly experienced in the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira, as well as other disciplines like jujutsu. Crowder takes over the role of the Mandalorian for scenes involving hand-to-hand combat and other big action stunts (like being blown away by explosions). " The secret is to always be ready," Crowder says in the docuseries. " I'm always training, whether it's martial arts, whether it's stunt training [or] weight training."

Wayne signed an NDA and was ushered into a room. “There’s a carry box – it’s big, like 4ft long and 3ft deep” he recalls. “They pop open the box. I look down and say, ‘ Boba Fett!’ They’re like, ‘No it’s not Boba Fett.’” If The Mandalorian is a Western in space – and it is – there's a reason that Brendan Wayne is such a good fit for the armour: he’s the grandson of John Wayne. But he didn’t know what he was getting into when he pulled on the Mando gear for the first time. Quite literally. Wayne, then a jobbing actor and bartender, got a call to try on a costume for an untitled Star Wars project. Having worked with The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau before, on 2011's Cowboys & Aliens, he thought little of it. “I’ve done so many of these favours!” he says. He imagined having to put on a Jar Jar Binks head. His only question was, “Am I getting paid?” I know he wanted to be more involved and at least try playing the character a little more,” says Lowin about Pascal in season two. “But I guess maybe to our credit – my, Brendan, and Lateef's credit – you can make something look easy that’s not. I’ve had to do both – acting where I’m using my face and voice, and acting where I’m not using my face and voice. You have to convey the same emotions without those things, with lots of subtle movements. I remember Pedro saying he was frustrated because he didn’t know how to act and perform without using his face. I think the more he attempted to try it, the more respect and appreciation he had for us playing the role.” And I was talking to a couple of actor buddies of mine, and they were saying, “Oh, you’re going have to do this and demand this,” and I was like, “I don’t care. They want me to play, I’ll play it. I’ll play it on fire if they want.” How often do you get to create something? That was really cool —being a part of creating a character who had never stepped foot in Star Wars yet. Wayne also revealed that George Lucas continued his trend of set visits for each season of The Mandalorian with this latest batch of episodes:During the first season, Wayne continued to work as a bartender. When it came to the second season, he didn’t initially get a call to return. “I think everybody thought Pedro's not working on Broadway,” he says. “I think he thought he was going to have a lot more time than he did.” But it dawned on the producers how crucial Wayne was. “They realised, this suit… he’s done something in it. We need him,” says Wayne. There may be crossovers with The Mandalorian's spinoffs. For The Book of Boba Fett, that's Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand. For Star Wars: Ahsoka, that's Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano. My agent said, “You won’t be the voice,” and I said, “I don’t care. What am I doing though? I do not want to sit around. Get me going — let me run into a wall, whatever you want. Throw me from a building — totally fine. You know, hurt me, but don’t make me sit around all day.” Just as Wayne makes the distinction between Din Djarin and Mando, it's important to make another distinction: Wayne, like Lowin, is not a body double; he’s an actor. He also insists that he’s not a stunt performer, as he’s credited on IMDb. “I am not talented enough to be a stuntman,” he says. “Lateef is exceptional at his craft.” If there’s any doubt about the acting prowess of the men beneath the Mando helmet, consider that the series wouldn’t work with the emotion and levity of the central relationship between Mando and Grogu – an incredible feat considering that one hides behind a helmet and the other is a puppet that talks gibberish. When talking about the future, Wayne explained that he has an idea of what the fourth season of The Mandalorian is going to look like narratively, while he also noted that samurai and wuxia films were a distinct inspiration for the Ahsoka series:

Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you. For different reasons, different episodes have a lot of meaning, whether it’s the enjoyment of the cast that came in for this episode, or the director I get to work with, or the story point I get to uphold in this moment. I don’t think I’ve had my favorite [episode air] yet… There are some things that happen in the final episode that are pretty epic.” Neither Mando actor was privy to the second season’s climatic surprise: the return of Luke Skywalker. Played by a body double – with Luke’s Jedi-era face added in post-production – the showrunners told everyone it was going to be the squid-like Jedi Knight, Plo Koon. Even the cast and crew were surprised by the Skywalker reveal. “Plo Koon is Dave Filoni’s favourite Jedi, so I bought into that,” he says, laughing. “I thought, yeah, why would they lie to me? That makes sense!” Wayne did find out before the episode streamed on Disney+. “I wasn’t aware until I was aware, and [the showrunners] didn’t make me aware – someone else did,” he says. “I can’t give up my source!”We have a trust,” says Wayne about Pascal. “I think he trusts me. I think he trusts Jon and Dave. There is a freedom for him to do The Last of Us.” It’s funny because I worked hand in hand with the Legacy guys, getting fitted properly for the shoot, so they brought me over and they were like, “You may be the next big Halloween outfit, but this is going to be the next greatest toy,” and they popped this thing out and showed me and I was like, “Oh my God. This is ridiculous.” And then they did some motorized stuff with his face, and I was like, Dude, this is going to be epic, because I remember Yoda when I was a kid. Having this baby version of this species …

He also made it clear just how much he and the rest of the production owed to the crew. “I don’t care what Pedro does, what I do — without the community, one little thing and it falls apart. And they’ve never dropped the shield.” Boba Fett is the] best kind of friend you can ever have, you know you can count on the guy when you need him, and sometimes you don’t even know you need him and he comes.” Din has exhibited zero interest in intergalactic politics, so we're curious to see if (and how) he gets pulled into the greater Mandalorian saga. As for Grogu, his Force powers could come in very handy in a fight, as we've seen already. The Mandalorian season 3 episodes and directorsSo in the episodes that have aired, can you tell whether it’s you onscreen in the costume versus someone else? When I was being smeared, cancelled & misunderstood, it was a Jewish man @benshapiro who reached out & asked if I’d like to talk about it. So they try to give you something to different work with in [this show], and this season was no exception, and you’ll see it in the next episode. You’re gonna see something very different than you’ve seen in its presentation, and so it’s amazing.” During that initial screen test, were you doing anything action-oriented, or was it really just seeing how you move in the costume? Lastly, Wayne had some interesting words to say about Boba Fett, which some might interpret as a tease for his possible return in The Mandalorian season 3:

Brendan, Lateef, and I were working together to make sure we were bringing the same character to life – that we weren’t doing different versions,” says Lowin. “Brendan might say, ‘I don’t think he would do this’, or Lateef would say, ‘this is a better way to do this’. There are plenty of shots where you could potentially see all three of us in one scene and not know it. I don’t think any of us was necessarily doubling anyone. It was just making sure the character stayed true and in form throughout the series.” Prior to The Mandalorian, you had worked with Jon Favreau on Cowboys & Aliens. Was that how you got involved in this?

Indeed, while Pedro Pascal is the star name – the voice and sparsely-seen face of the Mandalorian – Brendan Wayne is one of several men who play the character when the Mando helmet is very much on. “There’s a couple of us who throw on the gear regularly,” he says. Other Mandos include stuntman and martial artist Lateef Crowder and actor Barry Lowin, who played the Mandalorian across the first two seasons. Now, with the third season streaming weekly on Disney+, Wayne and Crowder are finally getting credited alongside Pascal – after two seasons of being buried in the credits as a “double”. When talking to Bryce Dallas Howard about working on “Sanctuary,” she said that she really liked how much of a collaboration creating the character was. So they finally called me in, and the costumers are looking at me, and it’s a different feel than when I normally go in for fittings or auditions. It’s weird. And they open a container [of the costume], and I looked at it and I said, “Oh my God, that’s Boba Fett.” And to a person, they were like, “No, it’s not Boba Fett! He’s dead!” And I was like, “No, this is Boba Fett, but I won’t tell anybody.” And they’re like, “It’s NOT.” They got really mad at me. [Laughs] I will say, Yes, I can. Will I tell you which places? No. But if you were at my house, hanging out with us, my kids will tell you, and they’ve been right 100 percent of the time. To Brendan Wayne, “The Duke” was simply “Grandaddy” – the man who taught him how to fish and used to put clingfilm over the toilet for a practical joke. He was also a powerful screen presence – especially at 6'4", 250lbs.