Actresses From the Star Wars Universe to Voice Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday

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Fans of Star Wars and Studio Ghibli films have reason to be happy today! Daisy Ridley, who will be playing Rey in The Force Awakens, and Ashley Eckstein, who voices Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will both be playing characters in the English-language dub of Studio Ghibli’s 1991 film Only Yesterday, which is set for release here in the US next year.

Both ladies seem thrilled to be a part of the film! Ridley will be playing the lead, Taeko, a young 20-something woman who travels to the countryside to visit her family, and questions her life. In addition to Ridley and Eckstein, the cast also includes The Newsroom‘s Dev Patel, and little Alison Fernandez, whom you might recognize from Orange is the New Black.

So, Studio Ghibli fans? Do you approve of this voice casting? Let us know in the comments!

(via The Daily Dot)

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