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After The Acolyte Was Unceremoniously Cancelled, I Hope Manny Jacinto Gets His Redemption With A Sequel To $160M Comedy
An upcoming comedy movie will give Manny Jacinto a shot at redemption about a year after The Acolyte disappointed audiences ...
Manny Jacinto Says Making Star Wars: The Acolyte Season 2 Is His Life Goal
Star Wars' actor Manny Jacinto has said making Season 2 of The Acolyte is now his personal life goal. Digital LA shared a video of Jacinto at Atlanta Dragon Con where he was asked what he wants to ...
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How Manny Jacinto Became ‘The Acolyte’’s Breakout Villain
EARLY IN HIS journey into The Acolyte, Disney+'s latest Star Wars series, Manny Jacinto was presented with a “problem” to solve. Approached by casting director Carmen Cuba and series creator ...
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‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Star Manny Jacinto Says His Off-Screen Performance Tested Him As Much As His “Three-Tiered” Role
Qimir (Manny Jacinto) in The Acolyte Christian Black/Lucasfilm/Disney+ I didn’t have time to bring this up to you at that point, but a quick scuffle with Mae in episode two signaled that there ...
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The Acolyte is Cancelled, But Manny Jacinto Wants a Season 2
Disney may not be renewing The Acolyte for a second season, but there’s one person who’s not happy with the decision: Manny Jacinto. The actor, who plays Force-sensitive Sith The Stranger in ...
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Nobody tell Manny Jacinto The Acolyte's been cancelled, because apparently the one thing he wants to do before he becomes a Force ghost is make season 2
Despite getting cancelled, Manny Jacinto has said one his biggest goals before he dies would be to make The Acolyte season 2. Towards the end of last month, despite setting up some pretty ...
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‘The Acolyte’ is Using Manny Jacinto to Seduce All of Us to the Dark Side of the Force
The Acolyte Episode 6 “Teach/Corrupt” proves that Leslye Headland must be stopped! Manny Jacinto’s Sith Lord is just too damn sexy! He’s all up in Star Wars with his incredible biceps ...
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‘The Acolyte’: Can Manny Jacinto’s Bulging Biceps Save the Flailing Show?
With the reveal of Jacinto’s surprising character, “The Acolyte” received a jolt—in the form of internet thirst. But is it enough to save the series from its critical thrashing? Freelance ...
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Manny Jacinto Turns to the Dark Side in ‘The Acolyte’
By Matt Stevens This interview includes spoilers for the first season of “The Acolyte.” As it turns out, Manny Jacinto brought some relevant experience to “The Acolyte”: He understands how ...
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Manny Jacinto Says ‘People Were Yearning’ for What ‘The Acolyte’ Provided
Manny Jacinto knows what he did to the internet on June 25. When his goofy low-level criminal Qimir on “The Acolyte” was unmasked as the show’s big bad — known as the Stranger and clad in ...
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‘The Acolyte’ Star Manny Jacinto: 12 Facts About The Star Wars Actor
Ever since the big reveal in Episode 5 of Star Wars: The Acolyte—and yes, some juicy scenes from Episode 6 as well—the internet has been set ablaze with images, video clips and thirst tweets ...