Star Wars Rebels: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Role Revealed
Lucasfilm and Disney XD have officially revealed the role of Sarah Michelle Gellar for the upcoming second season of Star Wars Rebels. Gellar was announced as joining the voice-over cast for the show earlier this year. However, her role has been kept a secret. Until now that is. Gellar, who is the real-life wife of Kanan Jarrus aka Freddie Prinze Jr., is set to play the Seventh Sister Inquisitor.
The Seventh Sister Inquisitor is said to be a cunning and crafty character in the show. She is a master of deception, and she has been charged by Darth Vader to track down the rebels and capture any surviving Jedi. The new Inquisitor is conniving, manipulative and deadly with a lightsaber.
Getting a new female villainess for the Star Wars Universe is certainly fantastic. According to Gellar, The Seventh Sister Inquisitor is tracking down Ahsoka Tano, and that eventually leads her to the crew of the space ship Ghost. It also looks like she will be working with one of the other Inquisitor characters who will debut this season. Also, if Gellar is playing The Seventh Sister, that implies that there could be either be six other Inquisitors, counting the one from the first season. Or there could be six other sisters like Gellar’s character.
The new season of Star Wars Rebels premieres on Wednesday, October 14 on Disney XD at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. You can check out a new behind the scenes video for the series, featuring new footage of The Seventh Sister Inquisitor in the player below. We also have some new artwork of the character (click to see the full-size image), courtesy of Disney XD.