Claudia Black Leaves Ahsoka Season Two

Claudia Black has gotten to play a lot of cool people, most significantly Aeryn Sun from Farscape. But her days as a Nightsister may have come to an end. Multiple news outlets are reporting Black is leaving the Disney+ series Ahsoka and will not return for its second season, now in production.

The reason? No bad blood. It’s on location and it’s too expensive to travel. “[Disney] could not pay me what I needed to be paid as a single mother to keep all my responsibilities going at home in Los Angeles, because they were filming in London,” Black told the press. “It was not something that they could make happen.” Yeah, I never understand decisions like this from gazillion-dollar conglomerates either. Reminds me of the Silicon Valley episode where the Hooli CEO says “This is all I can afford” and then gets into his giant jet and the afterburner knocks down some children.

Anyway, Claudia says she would have if she could have, but instead had to “bow out.” Claudia played Klothow, one of the three Nightsisters called the Great Mothers who reside on the planet of Peridea. They’re named after the Greek goddesses of fate, and claim to have similar fate-reading abilities. Night Sisters are essentially Force witches. Yes, there are witches in Star Wars and I’m fine with that.

There’s an “out” for her character, but the other two would have to be written out as well. They all left on Thrawn’s ship for Dathomir. We could just never see them arrive, or they could leave off-camera. Or Black could be recast — this character’s under heavy makeup. It’s currently unknown when the second season of Ahsoka will premiere.