Katee Sackhoff says ‘The Mandalorian’ destroyed her confidence

Katee Sackhoff voiced the character of Bo-Katan Kryze in several Star Wars animated series, and was eventually cast to play the live action version in The Mandalorian.

However, the switch over ended up ruining her confidence, as she said on her YouTube channel, “I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian — all of it,” Sackhoff said on her YouTube channel (below). “My style of acting has always just been [that] your first instinct is the right instinct. Do that. Play the reality of the situation. And I’ve never really played a character. I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. [My characters] always felt grounded in some part of my belly of who I was.”

She added, “Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants — like, I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her.

Describing the experience, the actress admitted, “Very Scary. It broke me. It just broke me, where I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work. And it just destroyed my confidence. I broke down and was like crying … I’m not OK, man, I’m so broken, I have no confidence left. I’m lost.”

Sackhoff recalled screaming at her manager over the problem one day as they kept telling her, “‘This is easy for you. You don’t have to try. Stop trying so hard.’ And I lost it at him one day and started screaming: ‘You’ve told me my entire life this is easy for me and it’s not fucking easy and now I’m falling apart.'”

Later on, she explained, “You know what I would do differently? I think I was so scared that I was going to fuck up that as soon as I delivered the take I wanted to deliver, that’s what I gave them. Up until that point in my career, I’d give four different takes and think they’d find it in post. I would change it and do something different every time and had fun with it. I tried so desperately to be so controlled.”

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