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Howard shared, \"Gina and Mando's stunt double were just destroying each other. And then it gets to Baby sipping his soup and everything else goes away, all these amazing feats of athleticism and martial arts, and ... just becomes 'Baby with soup.'\"

She added, \"I had worked with the same puppeteering folks on \"Terminator [Salvation]\" and \"Jurassic [World],\" so we spent a lot of time playing with the puppet, we wanted to use it as much as possible rather than relying on CG…”

“Species age differently.” #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/eFShy4RPpm

— The Mandalorian (@themandalorian) November 18, 2019

\"All we wanted to do was a zillion takes of how Baby was going to drink his soup. ... Would he drink it with one hand? Sipping it a lot? ... Baby just wins every scene he's in,\" Howard said.

In the end, they chose two hands, the small bowl looking huge in his tiny hands. And the rest, as they say, is history.

A new episode of \"The Mandalorian\" goes live every Friday on Disney+. Four episodes remain in the show's first season.

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