One Star Of The Acolyte Doesn't Care That The Show Got Canned

Key Takeaways

Star Wars: The Acolyte had polarizing reactions but Carrie-Anne Moss, who played Jedi Master Indara, wasn’t bothered by its cancelation.
Moss’ experience in the industry has made her resilient to show cancelations and disappointments.
Despite the cancelation of The Acolyte, fans can look forward to the Acolyte prequel novel for further exploration of the show’s world.

Star Wars: The Acolyte might have sparked a maelstrom of controversy and discourse both before and after its highly polarizing cancelation, but one individual close to the show wasn’t at all disturbed by the show’s dismissal or the noise surrounding it, and now they’ve explained why.

Star Wars: The Acolyte was a polarizing project from the very first episode, as the Leslye Headland-directed show seemed to grasp onto the emerging school of thought that the Jedi aren’t all that interesting in Star Wars, placing an emphasis on subversive storytelling from new, more ‘exciting’ perspectives. The show garnered a lot of interest when it debuted on Disney+ but quickly fell off over the course of its first season run to just its core audience, leading to Disney not going forward with a second season despite signs that it was in the picture at some point.

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While some fans celebrated the cancelation, others derided it and even feared that Disney would remove the Star Wars series from streaming after a merch-related mishap. However, one person who wasn’t particularly moved one way or another was someone unexpected: Hollywood legend and star on The Acolyte Carrie-Anne Moss, who played Jedi Master Indara in the show. Speaking to the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette about her ironically named character Mae in her most recently released project Die Alone, Moss explained why she was able to take the show’s cancelation in stride. “Yeah, I don’t really invest in thinking about whether things…it’s like when I was in a Marvel show [Jessica Jones], and I was really shocked when it got canceled in the end,” Moss explained. “You kind of get used to that, so you don’t really…you can’t even have a moment of disappointment. It’s just not worth it. It just happens. It’s part of it.”

While it’s probably a bit surprising, Moss’ explanation makes perfect sense coming from such a tenured and accomplished actress. Moss has actually spoken publicly about her efforts to stay above the disappointments and volatility that have always been par for the course in the industry, especially in relation to her spirituality and her Annapurna Living lifestyle brand. It’s great that she’s coping well, but Star Wars: The Acolyte’s cancelation is a bad sign for everyone else, even those who didn’t enjoy this particular interpretation of the franchise. Disney is legendary for being a risk-averse player, and for every canceled Acolyte, there’s that much less of a chance that the next Andor will get the green light at Disney+. While Moss might be fine, the rest of the franchise might be worse off for losing The Acolyte.

It’s hard to gauge if those who actually embraced The Acolyte are a prominent number amidst all the hate that the show received, but everyone is entitled to their opinions within the franchise. For those fans, there’s some consolation in the fact that the announced Acolyte prequel novel is still hitting shelves despite the show’s cancelation. While its certainly no season two, the book will offer fans a lot more time with one of the show’s more prominent characters and really explore some of the additions to the canon that Headland and her cast tried to bring to the small screen.

Star Wars: The Acolyte is available to stream on Disney+.