[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 2 premiere episode.]
One of the great things about The Mandalorian is that the Star Wars show offers an opportunity for a number of recognizable faces to appear in one-off cameo roles. Season 1 brought us Jason Sudeikis, Adam Pally, Clancy Brown, Bill Burr, and many others – some of whom even obscured their faces. The show’s episodic nature makes weekly guest stars easy to include, as does the fact that the series shoots in Los Angeles – ease of access is a big deal, and clearly creator Jon Favreau has a lot of famous friends.
And when it comes to familiar faces, the Season 2 premiere of the Disney+ series is no exception, as it offers a host of cameos that range from unrecognizable to extremely familiar.
So in case you missed some of those Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1 cameos, we’ve rounded up who played who below. As another reminder, these are spoilers for the Season 2 premiere episode of The Mandalorian – so if you don’t want to know some major plot points, I would suggest turning back now.
John Leguizamo as Gor Koresh
Yes indeed, that’s John Leguizamo under all those prosthetics playing gangster Gor Koresh in the opening moments of the Season 2 premiere. He finds himself in a tight spot but isn’t exactly confirmed dead, so it’s possible he could show up later on. Although it’s unlikely…
W. Earl Brown – Weequay Proprietor
Deadwood actor W. Earl Brown plays the bartender whom The Mandalorian encounters on Tatooine when looking for another Mandalorian. Which then leads to a pretty exciting Deadwood reunion…
Timothy Olyphant as The Marshal
Timothy Olyphant is the big guest star in the Season 2 premiere, playing “The Marshal” aka Cobb Vanth, and he teams up with The Mandalorian to help defeat a giant dragon monster. But not before revealing that he’s good buddies with the Weequay Proprietor, who we now know is played by his Deadwood alum W. Earl Brown. Neat!
Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett
The “shocking” cameo in this episode belongs to Temuera Morrison, who played Boba Fett’s bounty hunter after Jango Fett in the Star Wars preuqels (and whose DNA was used to create the clones in the first place). Boba Fett is without his helmet and is all scarred up, likely due to falling into that Sarlacc Pit in Return of the Jedi. But he is indeed alive, and it looks like he’ll be a significant player in Season 2 of The Mandalorian.
For more on The Mandalorian Season 2, check out our review of the first episode.
