Martin Scorsese’s cameo in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu was a 'dream come true' or director Jon Favreau

Martin Scorsese’s cameo in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu was a “dream come true” for director Jon Favreau.

While Favreau originally thought he had no chance of landing the legendary filmmaker to voice a four-armed, fur-covered food truck vendor in the new movie, convincing him was a surprisingly “painless process” once Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy got involved.

Favreau admitted to Variety, that he originally thought: “Why would [Scorsese] even consider this?” but “[Kathleen Kennedy] called him, and she said, ‘Yeah.’ That was it.”

He went on: “[The casting was] a dream come true. To be able to sit there with one of my idols and work a scene out and have him get laughs…”

Favreau revealed that Werner Herzog was also considered for the role before Scorsese signed on.