The Acolyte: Jodie Turner-Smith Reveals She’s a Force User

At Star Wars Celebration Europe this weekend, fans were treated to an exclusive trailer for the upcoming series, The Acolyte, which will take the franchise well into the past as the stories grow beyond the Skywalker Saga. It will be set 100 years before the events of the George Lucas prequels, which began with The Phantom Menace, and are based around an era known as the High Republic, which has been well documented in various forms of Star Wars expanded media over the years. The series features an ensemble cast, including several of this generation’s brightest stars, including Jodie Turner-Smith, and will center on a former Padawan who reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes. Having previously revealed to Collider that her character wasn’t a Jedi, Turner-Smith has now elaborated on that having been given the freedom to say just a tiny bit more about her character, who she has described as a “very powerful leader,“ when she met up with Collider’s editor-in-c