Published 19:02 IST, June 22nd 2020

Taika Waititi reveals he would cuddle with Baby Yoda while shooting 'The Mandalorian'

Taika Waititi recently spoke to an entertainment portal and spoke about the time he was shooting The Mandalorian. Read more to know what Taika Waititi said.

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Taika Waititi is a popular filmmaker and actor who is kwn for his contribution to Hollywood film industry including Star Wars. He recently spoke to an entertainment portal and revealed some unkwn facts from sets of Star Wars. Taika Waititi said that he h best time working on Mandalorian. He said so because he got opportunity to cuddle ‘Baby Yoda’ on sets. 

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Taika Waititi's experience on sets of  Mandalorian

Taika Waititi was responsible for directing final episode of series that was created by Jon Favreau. director revealed to a media portal that he would often take breaks during shoots just to cuddle with Baby Yoda doll. doll is also kwn as ' Child' on show, and director said that it would be pretty heartless t to cuddle Baby Yoda when you get opportunity to. He also mentioned that toy reminded him so much of his babies when y were 6 months old. He said that he couldn’t help it and h to hold toy in same way. 

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Child happens to be from exact same alien species as Yoda from original Star Wars movies. According to film’s plot, child was about 50 years old. But he will still be considered as a child because of extremely long lifespans of his species. Pedro Pascal’s Mandalorian initially tries to capture him for a bounty but n starts building a strong bond with him and makes it his job to protect him at all costs.

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More about Taika Waititi 

Currently, Taika Waititi will be getting back to complete his upcoming MCU film. After success of Thor: Ragnarok, Taika was given opportunity to direct upcoming Thor film, Thor: Love & Thunder.  fans have been expecting a lot from upcoming Thor film after watching Ragnarock

An entertainment portal asked Waititi current status of film and when shooting of film is going to take place. To this, filmmaker replied y move down to Sydney around April and according to him maybe, n y might just start shooting probably around August. It seems like fans will t have to wait long to hear about film's shooting.

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true fans of MCU will be erly waiting for this dition to Thor franchise which makes Thor only MCU character who is getting a fourth film. t only this, but fans can expect to see Natalie Portman as Jane Foster again in film which features Chris Hemsworth as Thor. 

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19:02 IST, June 22nd 2020