Did you think Yoda was the only long-lived green-skinned Jedi? Vernestra is a member of the Mirialan, who are native to the planet Mirial and have shown up in prequel-era live-action and animated “Star Wars” projects before (with the most notable examples being the Jedi Luminara Unduli and her onetime Padawan Barriss Offee, whose own story will continue in this year’s “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire”). They also tend to live a lot longer than other non-droids in the “Star Wars” galaxy, which means Vernestra has “been through some s**t” — as Headland put it — by the time “The Acolyte” begins. Henderson added:
“Because she has been around for so long, she has basically met everyone that has come through the [Jedi] Temple [on Coruscant], and seen them all die their natural deaths if they’re living a natural human life. She’s known [Lee Jung-jae’s Jedi Master] Sol since he was a tiny child.”
When we first met her in the High Republic books, Vernestra was already a full-fledged Jedi Knight at the tender age of 15, struggling to find her place between the Jedi-in-training closer to her age and her much older peers. Since then, the novels have gone ahead and paved the way for the more seasoned version of the character. In “The High Republic: Defy the Storm,” which was only just published in March, Vernestra (aka Vern) is haunted and embittered in the wake of her own Padawan’s apparent death. As /Film’s Bryan Young correctly predicted in his review of “Defy the Storm,” the book’s “more cynical and jaded” Vern will be closer to the one portrayed by Henderson. Being a fan of sad, old, grumpy Luke Skywalker in “The Last Jedi” and Obi-Wan in “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” that sounds more than alright to me.
“Star Wars: The Acolyte” begins streaming on Disney+ on June 4, 2024.
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