Read more about Cal Kestis at: Wikipedia Official Site: Electronic Arts Cal Kestis is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a Jedi Padawan who survived the Great Jedi Purge and went into hiding before being spotted using the Force and is led on a journey to rebuild the Jedi Order. Cal is the playable protagonist of the 2019 video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, an action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment. Cal is voiced and portrayed via motion capture by Cameron Monaghan. Cal Kestis is voiced and portrayed through motion capture by actor and model Cameron Monaghan. On playing the part of Cal, Monaghan said "It's pretty surreal to see a character that you built and got to explore and imagine. It's a character that I've really grown to love." He also stated, "It's such a privilege to be able to play something that has a storied history behind it, but also something that i'm a fan of and have always wanted to be part of since i was a kid." The actor "Didn't want to model Cal on any specific Star Wars character." Adding "I wanted Cal's personality and demeanor and everything to come out of his own experiences and his own stories, and to build it from an inward place." During his audition process for the game, Monaghan wasn't told that he was auditioning for a Star Wars game. "At that point I didn't know I was auditioning for a Star Wars game, but i kinda knew. They made these fake audition pages and stuff, and i was kinda reading it like 'hmmm... This is Star Wars, isn't i?' They were like 'No, of course not.' So when i got into the room and they gave me the toy lightsaber, I was like 'I knew it!" Before the developers knew who Cal Kestis was going to be, there were several different concepts. The director of the game, Stig Asmussen revealed "We talked about doing an alien character, we talked about doing a different gender, but we arrived at where we were because at the time, Rey was kind of the thing for Star Wars, so it made a lot more sense for us to have a male protagonist." This decision to make Cal a white male was met with some controversy.
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