‘The Acolyte’ Cast Couldn’t Stop Playing With Lightsabers ‘All Day, Every Day’: ‘There Are Walls That Have Been Dented’

It took about 240 hours of training to turn “The Acolyte” actress Danfe Keen into a certified Jedi Master. That meant 240 hours of lightsaber practice, strength training, stunts, and movement coaching from a team of dedicated Lucasfilm instructors. But according to Keen, the most “surreal” part of his regiment were the “force meetings,” where each “Acolyte” force user would sit in a quiet room and discuss mysterious space magic with a “Star Wars” expert advisor. .

“You ask about the force to this all-knowing man called Pablo (Hidlago), who has worked at Lucasfilm for decades,…