Director Jon Favreau on "The Mandalorian and Grogu"

Sunday Morning "The Mandalorian and Grogu" director Jon Favreau: "'Star Wars' has always been about families coming together" .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-sunday-morning.jpg'); } By Tracy Smith Tracy Smith Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a wide range of subjects, producing revealing interviews with news-making artists to moving, in-depth reporting. Read Full Bio Tracy Smith May 17, 2026 / 10:10 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google In Hollywood, you never know who you might run into. In a warehouse filled with "Star Wars" props and puppets, standing at the door of an Anzellan ship, was one of the stars of "The Mandalorian and Grogu": Grogu himself (Baby Yoda to some), green, wrinkly, and undeniably cute."The cute stuff in 'Star Wars' tends to be a little weird-looking," said director Jon Favreau. "It's not like 'Disney cute,' it's 'Star Wars cute.' And so, he's got weird little hairs and sharp little teeth in there and wrinkly skin, and claws!"As Favreau showed us, that's by design: "There's an analog, handmade feel to a lot of the characters and a lot of the costumes and a lot of the puppets from 'Star Wars,'" he said.  Director Jon Favreau with correspondent Tracy Smith in the "Star Wars" warehouse filled with spaceships, puppets and costumes.  CBS News In the "Star Wars" universe, Favreau is a force. In 2019 he created the Disney+ show "The Mandalorian," a space western with a blaster-wielding bounty hunter who protects the tiny but powerful alien Grogu. Favreau's new movie is based on the show. "The Mandalorian and Grogu," which comes out this week, is the first "Star Wars" film to hit theaters in nearly seven years.And apologies to Pedro Pascal (who plays the Mandalorian), but his costar tends to steal every scene. Favreau says he d...