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“As an actor, it was a really cool opportunity to have footage of my character’s parents meeting, and it also allowed me to understand their personalities. So instead of having to come up with this whole backstory for myself, I could watch the original movie and see Madmartigan’s sprightliness. He’s very outspoken and very confident, and Sorsha is defiant, strong-willed and unafraid to go against the grain. So those were definitely things that I put into my character, but I also envisioned how those people would raise a child. What parts of them would Kit get annoyed with? What parts of them would Kit want to reject? So it was a really cool experience to be able to play with that,” Cruz explained.
Who Voices Madmartigan in Willow?
In last week’s episode, Kilmer and Whalley’s real-life son, Jack Kilmer, provided Madmartigan’s voice.
“Jack has been a great friend to Willow all along, you know,” showrunner Jonathan Kasdan recently told Decider. “Between Joanne and Val he basically is the child of the Willow franchise.” Kasdan added, “We actually recorded with Val and we used his performance as a guide track. Then Jack was given Val’s performance to listen to and then copy what his dad had done in terms of you know, the performance elements of Val’s thing.”
The first seven episodes of Willow are now streaming on Disney+.
