Though his training was incomplete, he was thrust back into the fight and the ways of the Jedi the rest is gaming history. In Jedi: Fallen Order, set during the age of the Empire and Jedi-hunting Inquisitors, Cal was just looking to lay low and exist until fate intervened. “I remember my friends being really tripped out. As a joke, Monaghan would sit near friends, echoing the game’s dialogue or Cal’s grunts and screams as they happened on-screen. “I’d go over their house and they’d be playing it, and it would be really weird,” he tells, laughing.

But while seeing himself in a game didn’t faze the actor, the same can’t be said for his loved ones. Monaghan had played the game’s protagonist, Cal Kestis, a Padawan survivor of Order 66, so it made for something of a perfect present.

When Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order arrived in November 2019, Cameron Monaghan had an easy holiday gift for family and friends. Note: Following publication of this article, the release date of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was moved to April 28, 2023. With the debut of a new trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the actor speaks with about his return to the galaxy far, far away.

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