No, it’s not Baby Yoda, or even The Child, as he has been referred to up until this point.
Thanks to a new Vanity Fair interview with executive producer, writer, and director Dave Filoni, we know just how Grogu came to be.
After a whole year of fans fawning over “Baby Yoda,” finally someone in The Mandalorian has made the connection between The Child and the original Yoda.
Filoni was also very careful to use a character who wouldn’t freak out over the fact that Grogu is the spitting image of Yoda.