Starbuck

Katee Sackhoff on going from animation to live action:

"I lost all of my confidence after Mandalorian — all of it... My style of acting has always just been [that] your first instinct is the right instinct. Do that. Play the reality of the situation. And I've never really played a character... It just broke me, where I started doubting everything about myself. I'm not a strong auditioner on tape, and I was having to put myself on tape. I wasn't booking anything. And for three years, I basically didn't work. And it just destroyed my confidence. I broke down and was like crying … I'm not OK, man, I'm so broken, I have no confidence left. I'm lost."

She said she clashed with her former manager over the issue, after the manager told her, "'This is easy for you. You don't have to try. Stop trying so hard.' And I lost it at him one day and started screaming: 'You've told me my entire life this is easy for me and it's not fucking easy and now I'm falling apart.'"