How to Get Cast in Ahsoka Season 2

Here’s the honest headline first: Ahsoka Season 2 filmed from April through fall 2025 in the United Kingdom, wrapped production, and premieres January 20, 2027. If you’re looking for an open audition for Season 2 right now, that ship has sailed.

But here’s the more useful headline: understanding how Season 2 was cast is the single best playbook for getting into the Star Wars pipeline going forward — because the person who casts Ahsoka also casts essentially every major Disney+ Star Wars series, and several more are on the way. This article is both your breakdown of how Season 2 came together and your strategy guide for what comes next.

The Season at a Glance

Ahsoka Season 2 picks up the story of former Jedi Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), eight episodes released weekly starting January 20, 2027 on Disney+. Creator Dave Filoni wrote all eight episodes.

The key story points for actors:

• Filming: April–fall 2025, UK bases around London and Richmond, England — practical sets plus extensive blue-screen and performance-capture work
• Release: January 20, 2027, 8 episodes weekly on Disney+
• Baylan Skoll: Recast with Rory McCann following the passing of Ray Stevenson
• Hayden Christensen: Returns as Anakin Skywalker
• Casting structure: Large alien and creature ensemble, heavy use of performance capture — meaning physical performers and stunt-capable actors were in demand

The production employed hundreds of UK-based performers across background, creature, and stunt departments. Every one of them got there through the same pipeline that will staff the next wave of Star Wars series.

The Casting Director: Sarah Finn

Sarah Finn (credited as Sarah Halley Finn) is the casting director behind Ahsoka, and her reach in this world is enormous. Natasha Liu Bordizzo herself has described auditioning “with [casting director] Sarah Finn” to win the role of Sabine Wren — a process that started from a self-tape before Finn met her in person.

Finn is best known as the casting director for the Marvel Cinematic Universe — she’s the person behind casting choices across the Avengers films and much of the broader Marvel slate. In Star Wars, her fingerprints are on the live-action Disney+ era: The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka are among the series she’s cast. When Lucasfilm needs to fill a galaxy, Finn is the call.

Why this matters: casting directors reuse performers they trust. Finn’s office is a hub — book a day player on one of her shows and you’re visible for all of them. Her casting style is also famously open: she has a long track record of discovering unknown talent through open casting calls and wide self-tape searches rather than only pulling from agency lists. That’s the actor’s real opening.

What Roles They Cast

Understanding the tiers of a Star Wars production tells you where your realistic entry points are — for future series, since Season 2 itself has wrapped.

Series leads and major recurring roles. Locked for Season 2: Dawson, Bordizzo, McCann, Christensen, and the returning ensemble. These roles were cast in 2024–2025 through Finn’s office, with a mix of agency submissions and the wide searches she’s known for. Bordizzo herself was relatively unknown when she landed Sabine — proof the funnel is real.

Performance-capture and creature performers. This is the distinctive tier. Ahsoka’s alien characters are brought to life through performance capture, which means productions hire physical performers — actors with movement training, stunt skills, dance backgrounds, and puppetry experience — who can act through a mo-cap suit. Season 2’s creature-heavy storytelling made this one of the largest hiring categories.

Background performers. Star Wars productions need enormous background casts: Imperial officers, rebels, aliens, droids (some practical, some human-operated), cantina crowds. These are hired through UK background agencies and casting services, not Finn’s office directly.

Stunt and specialty performers. Lightsaber combat, creature suits, wire work. Stunt coordinators hire from established stunt registries.

How to Apply: Step by Step (for Future Star Wars Casting)

Step 1: Understand the real pipeline

For a Star Wars Disney+ series, casting flows like this: Finn’s office casts all principal and speaking roles; UK-based background agencies cast extras; stunt coordinators cast stunt performers. Matching your effort to the right channel is the entire game — emailing Finn’s office about background work is a miss, and vice versa.

Step 2: Get your materials Star-Wars-ready

• Headshots: Natural, neutral, high-quality. Creature and performance-capture casting in particular is done substantially from headshots and movement reels — your face matters less than your physical presence, but you still need professional photos.
• Movement reel: If you have dance, mime, martial arts, or stage-combat training, cut a 60-second movement reel. For the creature tier, this is more important than a dialogue reel. Include any mo-cap, puppetry, or prosthetics experience prominently on your resume — it’s rare and casting notices it immediately.
• Resume: List sci-fi/fantasy, stage combat, motion capture, voice work, and physical theater first. Height, build, and movement skills genuinely matter for alien roles.

Step 3: Build your Project Casting profile for sci-fi casting

Project Casting is where casting notices for genre productions land. Set your profile up to be found for this kind of work:

• Upload headshots plus full-body photos (full-body shots matter disproportionately for creature and background casting)
• Enter your resume fully, with movement and stunt skills flagged in special skills
• List any performance-capture, puppetry, or creature-suit experience explicitly
• Watch for casting notices tagged sci-fi/fantasy and for UK-based productions — and note that future Star Wars series are expected to keep filming in the UK

Step 4: Watch how Season 1’s open searches worked

When Ahsoka Season 1 was casting, the search for Sabine Wren was wide — Bordizzo has described auditioning directly with Finn after starting with self-tapes. Finn’s office has a documented history of considering self-tapes from actors without major representation when the role calls for a fresh face. The lesson: when the next series announces casting, submit early, submit professionally, and don’t self-reject because you lack big credits.

Step 5: The agent vs. self-submit question

Principal roles on Star Wars series come through Finn’s office, and most go through agents — but her office does consider strong self-tapes for roles where they’re seeking unknowns, and open casting calls do happen for the franchise. Background and creature-day-player work frequently goes through UK agencies where you register directly. If you have an agent, make sure genre casting is on their radar; if you don’t, the self-submit and agency-registration routes are legitimate.

Step 6: Keep a self-tape setup battle-ready

When Finn’s office runs a wide search, turnaround can be days. Have a clean self-tape setup (neutral backdrop, good light, solid reader) ready at all times, and keep a current slate and sides-reading clips on your profile. The actor who can deliver a great tape in 24 hours beats the slightly better actor who needs a week.

Realistic Tips

The creature tier is the hidden door. Everyone wants to be a Jedi; far fewer actors train for performance capture. A year of movement training plus a mo-cap reel puts you in a much smaller, much more hireable pool for every Star Wars and fantasy production filming in the UK.

Bordizzo’s path is the template. Unknown, self-taped, met Finn, booked a lead. It’s the exception, not the rule — but it proves the funnel exists. Prepare as if it could be you.

UK base matters. The Disney+ Star Wars series have filmed overwhelmingly in the UK. If you’re UK-based, you have a structural advantage for background and day-player work. If you’re US-based, your realistic route is principal roles through an agent — or relocating.

Don’t pitch Season 3 as if it’s casting now. As of this writing, Season 2 wrapped in fall 2025 and premieres January 2027. When future Star Wars series announce production, that’s your window — position now so you’re ready then.

SAG-AFTRA and Equity: UK-filmed productions hire under local union frameworks alongside SAG-AFTRA for US talent. Know where you stand and what you’re eligible for.

FAQ

Is Ahsoka Season 2 still filming?

No. Season 2 filmed April through fall 2025 in the UK and wrapped. It premieres January 20, 2027, with 8 episodes released weekly on Disney+.

Who is the casting director for Ahsoka?

Sarah Finn (credited as Sarah Halley Finn). She casts the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the live-action Star Wars Disney+ series including The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka.

Can I still audition for Ahsoka Season 2?

Principal and background casting for Season 2 is complete — filming wrapped in fall 2025. This guide is built for positioning yourself for future Star Wars series through the same casting pipeline.

How did Natasha Liu Bordizzo get cast as Sabine Wren?

She has described auditioning with casting director Sarah Finn directly — starting from self-tapes — despite being relatively unknown at the time. It’s the best-known example of Finn’s open-search approach to Star Wars casting.

What is performance-capture casting, and how do I get into it?

Productions hire physical performers (movement, stunt, dance, puppetry backgrounds) to perform alien and creature characters in motion-capture suits. Build a movement reel, list mo-cap and creature-suit experience on your resume, and register with UK agencies that staff creature performers.

Will there be an Ahsoka Season 3?

No official announcement has been made. Lucasfilm has multiple Star Wars series in various stages of development, and Finn’s office remains the central casting hub for the franchise’s live-action slate — which is why the strategy in this article applies beyond Ahsoka.

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Season 2 premieres January 20, 2027 — [INTERNAL LINK: sci-fi and fantasy casting calls — browse today’s notices] and [INTERNAL LINK: performance-capture performer guide — how to build a movement reel].