Headland talked about Star Wars and her upcoming show with YouTuber Fantastic Frankey.
When asked what her favorite dream project was, Headland was rather clear it's the upcoming Star Wars project.
She stated, "I see this as a massive challenge to take on and a very serious one and I have an immense amount of respect for the world George built. But also canon… In legends and canon. There is a lot of stuff there. Not to take any of that lightly and like, 'Hey! I'm gonna bring my thing into that.' I think that would be a mistake. It feels like I'm joining almost a religion."
She went on, "I mean it's funny, I was using that as an analogy. With the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm…with that acquisition it was kind of where the Catholic Church was in 1400."
Headland stated, "You've got Rian Johnson as Martin Luther posting stuff to the front of the church and everyone's like 'NO!' and the other half is like 'Yes!'"
She went on, "You can't enter this world without having a very strong point of view, but also having an enormous amount of reverence as if you were stepping into a cathedral. If you were stepping into Notre Dame. You have to have an enormous amount of imagination. You have to have your own point of view. You have to know what these ethos mean to you."
Later in the interview, Headland would also discuss her passion for Star Wars, "Listen, I was already a big fan. Of course growing up I was a huge fan, but I would say with the advent of YouTube that was really when I started getting more into Star Wars again."
She continued, "Because I was in my early 20s during the prequels, I went to see them all opening night because I needed to know what happened. But I would say I didn't really immerse myself as much as when the original trilogy was touching me as a kid. Because then I was reading Heir to the Empire and Timothy Zahn books. I was kind of getting into it a little bit more as a teenager."
"I kind of put it down. As the prequels. I just didn't feel like I was the audience for the prequels except that I was a Star Wars fan… But it was really in the advent of YouTube that I started to get reinvested in Star Wars again," Headland went on.
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