His performance has earned rave reviews from fans ‘Star Wars ’ fans are obsessed with ‘The Good Place’ star Manny Jacinto, saying he’s “the best thing” about new series The Acolyte . The new show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , and the show is streaming now on Disney+ . The final episode lands today (July 16).
Online, fans have been quick to praise the show’s Manny Jacinto, who also starred as Jason Mendoza in The Good Place. In the show, Jacinto plays a seemingly happy-go-lucky, drunken apothecary named Qimir. However, in episode five, we learn he has a darker secret and one that has huge consequences for many in the show.
Fans have described him as “one of the best things” about the show while others have joked that that “can’t unsee” the character he plays in The Good Place when watching the new Star Wars show. One fan said: “ The Acolyte changed how I see Manny Jacinto forever!” while another added: “I was watching the Star Wars acolyte and then I just recognised an actor is also Jason Mendoza from the good place and now I can’t take the villain seriously.” Check out some more of the reaction here: knowing that tomorrow is the acolyte finale makes me both sad but eager to see how this series wraps up.
.. i’m also super excited to see manny jacinto’s career flourish further.
.. mans thinks he’ll be unemployed after this.
.. i see so much transpiring and coming up for him — elex (@missnhieuchuyen.