Star Wars: The Acolyte Season 1 Has An Alternate Ending With An Odd Romantic Twist
Now that The Acolyte has wrapped up its first season, fans may have to wait before the fate of the series is decided by Disney+. In the meantime, one of the stars of The Acolyte has revealed that an alternate ending was filmed that would have opened up a romantic relationship between two of the leading characters.
Warning: the following contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of The Acolyte on Disney+. If you haven’t seen the episode or don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now.
After trying to get Mae (Amandla Stenberg) murder a Jedi without a weapon for most of the season, Qimir/The Stranger (Manny Jacinto) witnessed Mae’s sister, Osha (Stenberg), pull off that feat when she killed her former master, Sol (Lee Jung-jae), for murdering her mother years earlier. Afterwards, Osha agreed to be trained by Qimir. And in the original ending, Osha and Qimir would have shared a kiss.