For an actor, there are few things more challenging than playing identical twins. Nicolas Cage once said that while portraying both Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation, “I literally wanted to scream. And then, in fact, did scream.” A young Lindsay Lohan joked that the hardest part of filming The Parent Trapwas “remembering both lines.” Now, Star Wars has its first identical twins. Sort of.

In the latest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, Amandla Stenberg portrays one Force-sensitive person literally split in two thanks to a powerful “vergence” in the Force. This gave the actor the opportunity to play their characters (Mae and Osha) as two halves of a whole, culminating in a stunning mirror-image fight scene and a whole lot of soul searching.

While we wait for The Acolyte to get that coveted Season 2 order, Stenberg sits down with Inverse to discuss Osha and Mae’s emotional journeys, the twins’ big switcheroo, and the anime that helped the actor get into their heads.

House of the Dragon’s second season has been an eventful one. But despite all of the many highs it has hit over the course of its first six episodes, House of the Dragon Season 2 has struggled to give all of its characters their due.

No figure has suffered as much from the show's unevenness this season than Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith). Ever since he and Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) had their tumultuous fight in the season's second episode, Daemon has been more or less left adrift. He's taken Harrenhal, sure, but the HBO series also dragged out Daemon's story in the Riverlands to a frustrating degree.

Worst of all, it has manufactured drama between Daemon, Rhaenyra, and Alys Rivers (Gayle Rankin) that isn't just unnecessary at this point in House of the Dragon's story but also has no grounding in the show's source material.