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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 33 credits. I remember seeing all the names of all the people who worked on it and was like, "wow, that's a lot of people!" It never dawned on me that it could be me and the fact that I ended up winning for something that's related to my dad was the best feeling ever. It was also great because we were remembering Shawna [who] put so much into Ahsoka. Shawna was being very OCD with the show. "I need to make sure that this is perfect. I need to make sure this is perfect." And I think that is also what contributed to it because I think that people understood it was a passion project for us. Our fellow peers understood. "Wow, you guys really put your heart and soul into it and we also think that you guys should be rewarded for it." I think that that's what made a difference. Luis: To be honest, every time we were just that close [with previous Mandalorian nominations], it just felt like it slipped away, and she was always like "we're going to do it. We'll get 'em next time." It was always like this progression through the shows, it was figuring out the different rigging and figuring out how to hide the zippers and figuring out how to make it not all look the same [as] previous seasons, and I feel like having won the Emmy this time felt good. When she won the Costume Designers Guild Award [for The Mandalorian season three], it was kind of like she was on this trajectory of going up and I know that she would have been freaking out, happy about it. MARCUS: It's a bittersweet thing because Shawna's not with us anymore and she's the one who brought the team together and really curated it. By Ahsoka, we were all so good at working together, reading each other's minds, knowing what we want, knowing what Shawna wants, figuring that out, being able to feel and predict and to collaborate. Shawna had really brought us all together in that way. One thing that's really cool about the Star Wars fans is that they really appreciate costumes, so getting that Emmy was just another validation because the fans had already reacted to what we made and loved the work that we had done. I get that comment a lot from going to cons and stuff but getting the Emmy was a higher level of validation that now our work is being seen … and being appreciated on that professional level as well. GIO: When Elissa was preparing her potential speech for her acceptance speech, she told me: "I really want to name all these people" and I said, "don't do that." I felt that you can't quantify on a show like this, the value of any single person because, for example—for stormtroopers— yes, a whole team of warehouse costumers worked on making it, but guess what? That day player, if you were there for a day and you were responsible for stormtrooper #15, that's important because that may have been the biggest scene of the shot. You made sure that the red silk was up, and you made sure that a crack wasn't showing. And at the end, you're the last person in this relay race holding the baton, and that won us an Emmy. So maybe you were that day player who touched that costume. How are you any less valuable than all the people that worked on it? So, I just think that you can't quantify any person's value. It doesn't matter. If you were on our show for a short time, if you were on it full time as a crew member, I see you, I honor your work and I'm grateful for your skills. The work of the Ahsoka team can be seen streaming on Disney+. "We were all so good at working together, reading each other's minds, knowing what we want, knowing what Shawna wants, being able to feel and predict and to collaborate."