Robert Rodriguez says he wasn't the original choice to direct last week's Mandalorian episode

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“I’m friends with Jon Favreau and he needed a last-minute replacement for a director," Rodriguez tells GamesRadar. "And so I said, ‘Sure, I'll come play in the Star Wars universe!’ What a dream. And it's fulfilled all my... it’s beyond my expectations, I mean, it was SO fun, you can’t imagine what it's like to walk on a set that has the classic look of The Empire Strikes Back feel and look. It’s right after that era, right after the Return of the Jedi. It's that era. So you really feel like you just walked into your childhood."