Pen15 – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com Entertainment News, Celebrities and Fandoms Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:50:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.geekfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-Geekfeed-Favicon-White-32x32.png Pen15 – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com 32 32 Obi-Wan Kenobi Hired Star Wars ‘Mega Fans’ as Extras https://www.geekfeed.com/obi-wan-kenobi-hired-mega-fans-as-extras/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:40:36 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=63088 Maya Erskine may be ending her amazing run on Pen15, but she’s signed on with Lucasfilm to work on the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. We don’t have any news on who she’ll be playing in the series, but she does give some details about working on a Star Wars set.

Talking to the Just for Variety podcast, Erskine reveals that the extras on the set were “mega fans” of the franchise. She says:

“The extras were incredible on the set, and a lot of them were mega ‘Star Wars’ fans. One guy, he was so nice and he lifted up his sleeves and had ‘Star Wars’ tattoos over his whole body. And they build droids. There are lot of ‘Star Wars’ fans that build droids, and then the production companies will rent [them] from the fans.”

This isn’t the first time that production has asked help from the fans. In the first season of The Mandalorian, Lucasfilm had hired members of the 501st Legion to use their screen accurate stormtrooper outfits since they were running short.

We don’t know who Erskine is playing in the series yet, but it’s said to be just a small role. Watching Erskine’s work, I think she would be perfect as expanded universe character Doctor Aphra. Though it’s possible she won’t have a large role in Kenobi, I could imagine her taking on a more substantial part with the Ahsoka series.

No release date has been set for Obi-Wan Kenobi, but you can catch The Book of Boba Fett when it comes out Dec. 29.

]]> Pen15 Returns This December; New Trailer Dropped https://www.geekfeed.com/pen15-returns-this-december-new-trailer-dropped/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 05:44:06 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=62278 Probably one of the most unique coming-of-age shows to come out recently is Hulu’s Pen15, and the series features some knockout performances from leads Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine. The first part of the second season had come out last September 2020, and now Maya and Anna are set to return with their hang-ups this December.

Watch the trailer for the second season of Pen15 down here:

Based on the new trailer, it looks like we’re going to be following several plot points that has been established in previous seasons. It seems that Anna’s parents finally decided to live separately, and we get to watch Anna deal with their separation. On Maya’s side of things, she continues to experience what it’s like to be part of the Asian minority; that and she also has to deal with Anna getting a boyfriend before her.

Besides all these personal issues, the girls also have to deal with every other thing that teens went through in the early 2000s, like the rise of cellphones.

Despite its juvenile title, Pen15 actually has a lot of serious drama going for it. We have fun watching Maya and Anna joke around with each other and cope with their changing bodies, but at the same time we also get to watch them undergo some serious personal experiences. Both Erskine and Konkle deserve some major praise for the show.

Pen15 is an R-rated “traumedy” set in middle school as it really happened in the year 2000. Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine play versions of themselves as thirteen year old outcasts, surrounded by actual thirteen year olds. In this world, seventh grade never ends and the pains of growing up are inevitable.

Pen15 comes back to Hulu on Dec. 3.

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