Katee Sackhoff Says she Lost Confidence in her Acting after Doing "The Mandalorian"

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Katee Sackhoff Recalls Not Acting for Nearly Three Years after "The Mandalorian": “It Just Broke Me”
by Glenn Garner
August 22, 2025


Despite getting to play around in a galaxy far, far away, Katee Sackhoff took some time to find “The Force” again after appearing in the Star Wars franchise.

The actress, who starred as Bo-Katan Kryze on "The Mandalorian", recently explained how the role “just broke me” and led to a nearly three-year hiatus from onscreen acting roles.



“I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian. All of it,” she explained on her podcast The Sackhoff Show.

“I’ve always played two steps removed from myself, in a sense. It always felt grounded in some part of my belly, of who I was. Bo-Katan is nowhere near who I am as a human being. Her life, what she wants — I didn’t understand her. As much as I understood her, I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified with her. I didn’t know how to find her.”



“It broke me. It just broke me,” explained Sackhoff.

“I started doubting everything about myself. I’m not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn’t booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn’t work, and it just destroyed my confidence.”

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