Katee Sackhoff is opening up about life after The Mandalorian.
The 45-year-old actress portrayed Bo-Katan Kryze on the Star Wars series across seasons two and three.
During a recent episode of her podcast, The Sackhoff Show, Katee shared how working on the show destroyed her confidence and led to her “basically” not working for three years.
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“I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian. All of it,” she said. “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.”
After wrapping filming in spring 2022, Katee says she had trouble finding her confidence again and find more roles.
“It broke me. It just broke me,” she shared. “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.”
Katee added that she has since hired a new manager, who connected her with an acting coach to help.
“[The coach] said to me, ‘My goal is not to teach you how to act. You know how to act,’” she dished. “‘I just need to get you back in your belly. You just need to find your confidence again.’ That’s it.”
Since The Mandalorian, Katee has made only a couple appearances on screen – in an episode of Law & Order and the movie Fight or Flight – as well as a handful of voice roles.
Next up, Katee will be reunite with her Oculus director Mike Flanagan for the upcoming Carrie TV series for Prime Video.