Star Wars: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Last Jedi
1. Actor Timothy D. Rose Was Left In Tears Over Admiral Ackbar's Death
Many fans were left disappointed by the death of Admiral Ackbar at the hands of Kylo Ren, but nobody was more crestfallen than Timothy D. Rose, who played Ackbar in 1983's Return of the Jedi and returned to portray him in both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
In addition to expressing frustration with the secrecy on set while shooting both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, Rose felt that Ackbar's death was treated as a joke on set. He said:
"We finished all of our bits and they asked me to come down to camera and I thought, 'Oh well maybe they're going to say thank you for being one of the heritage characters and giving 30 years and all that,' but what they did was ask me to look at the camera and say 'It's's a wrap.' I was actually in tears in the suit because I thought - after everything, after hoping they'd be something, after knowing there wasn't going to be anything else, Ackbar's final moment before he went in to the box was a big joke about it's a wrap."
Rose's comments have earned him a lot of sympathy from fans, who also felt that Ackbar should've received a more ceremonious and "meaningful" demise, rather than being disposed of so flippantly.
To compensate for this, his son Aftab was introduced as a minor character in The Rise of Skywalker.