Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Grogu

10. The Cost Of The Child

Hopping straight into the financial investment that went into committing to Lucasfilm and Disney's undoubted breakout star of their first-ever live action Star Wars series, Jon Favreau had to convince the House of Mouse paying the bills to dump an eye-watering $5 million on the table in order to fully realise his eventual vision for the ball of utter cuteness.

This staggering cost of creation found its way into public knowledge on the back of Adam Pally, who appeared in The Mandalorian via Stormtrooper cameo in the first season's final episode, recounting a tale of him decking the diminutive puppet a little too hard during one particular take.

As the comedy star would note to reporters at TCA later down the road:

“I remember the first take that I did when I punched it. They called ‘cut’ and Jon, who was watching on a monitor in his office, came down and said, “‘I just want to let you know that this is the hero and it costs, like, $5 million. I want you to hit it, but I want you to know that.'”

Understandably a little spooked by this revelation, a "nervous" Pally subsequently missed his punch during the next three takes.