It’s been 5 years since Star Wars 9: The Rise of Skywalker reached cinemas and Rey (Daisy Ridley) was equipped with a new and very own lightsaber at the end of the sci-fi hit. Thereby has the color of the iconic weapon provided plenty of conversation and theories, as a yellow lightsaber was highly unusual for the Star Wars universe to date. Now the meaning of this may finally have been clarified. Because in the new Star Wars series The Acolyte there will also be a yellow lightsaber…
The Acolyte star Charlie Barnett explains the meaning behind the yellow lightsaber
Speaking to Total Film (via Screen Rant ), The Acolyte star Charlie Barnett (Matryoshka) talked about his lightsaber in the series. In the new Star Wars format he will take on the role of Jedi Guardian Yord Fandar. For this purpose, he was also equipped with a yellow lightsaber via a few detours:
I have a yellow lightsaber. At first I wanted a purple lightsaber. And originally I was given a different color, which I can’t reveal because it’s related to another character… But they took that away from me and gave me the yellow instead, and I was like, ‘What? I’ve hardly seen any yellow lightsabers yet? What’s that supposed to mean?’
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However, the yellow color has a special meaning, as Barnett further explained in the interview:
But I think yellow represents balance, duality, a person who is as connected to the Force as he is to his own physical grounding.
What does the yellow lightsaber mean for Rey’s future in Star Wars?
As Screen Rant suspects, the yellow lightsaber could mean for Rey that at the end of Star Wars 9 she had found an inner balance with the knowledge of her origins, which enabled her to find the new one Jedi Order with self-confidence to direct.
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The fact that Charlie Barnett’s Yord Fandar wears a yellow lightsaber as a Jedi guard also plays into the assumption that yellow lightsabers were primarily carried by temple guards. Rey, as head of the Jedi Order, could therefore also act as a kind Guardian understand it.
We’ll be excited to see how the theory fares when Star Wars 10: New Jedi Order reaches us on the big screen. A cinema release is currently planned for 2026. The series Star Wars: The Acolyte, however, will be released on June 4, 2024 start on Disney+.