Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jon Favreau met fans in Leicester Square for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film in cinemas in more than six years.
Lucasfilm brought Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu to Cineworld Leicester Square for its UK fan premiere on Thursday 7 May 2026, a week before the film’s premiere in Los Angeles.
Pedro Pascal, who plays the bounty hunter Din Djarin, led the cast. He was born in Santiago in 1975, and his parents fled Chile with him as a child after the 1973 coup, settling in Texas and then California. He trained at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and spent years in television guest parts before Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones made his name in 2014; Narcos, The Mandalorian and The Last of Us followed.
Sigourney Weaver joined him. Born in New York in 1949, she studied at Stanford and the Yale School of Drama, and her Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien in 1979 made her name; the sequel, Aliens, brought the first of her three Academy Award nominations. The director Jon Favreau and the producer Kathleen Kennedy completed the line.
Favreau created The Mandalorian for Disney+ in 2019 and wrote the film with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor as the series’ continuation. After the fall of the Empire, the New Republic enlists Djarin and his apprentice, Grogu, to rescue Rotta the Hutt, voiced by Jeremy Allen White. Ludwig Göransson wrote the score, and the film opened in British cinemas on 22 May.