Mercedes Varnado might be checking her Instagram messages a little more from now on. In a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 28-year-old actress, who you might recognize as WWE’s Sasha Banks, revealed that the Disney+ show reached out to her for a role on The Mandalorian through social media. “One day, for some reason, I was going through my Instagram DMs, which I normally don’t go through, and a casting director messaged me and said, ‘Jon Favreau really wants to interview you for something for Disney,’” Mercedes recalled.
After that, the process went really fast and before she knew it, “I got a FaceTime from him and he told me about The Mandalorian.
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