*This was transcribed from a video clip, so it has been paraphrased for readability and brevity
Donald Glover lately opened up about enjoying the younger Lando Calrissian to GQ. He rapidly factors out how his pals harassed him about Lando’s “attention-grabbing” relationship along with his droid. We would possibly by no means know the reality, however Glover thinks that Lando “getting it on” with a droid is a “risk”.“The First Black Man in Space!” he says. Glover additionally in contrast Star Wars to Star Trek, confirming that Star Trek already had an African-American character in Lt. Nyota Uhura, performed by the wonderful Nichelle Nichols. “But with Lando, for some purpose, folks really feel like it is a actual black particular person in house!”
Glover goes on to speak about how his first introduction to Lando Calrissian by his Dad:
“I bear in mind my Dad exhibiting me Star Wars and being like yo, that is Lando! And he’s, , he feels “pulpy”. The remainder of these different… , the entire Skywalker household, you’ll be able to’t actually f*ck with the canon. You can have a “pulpy” sort of like sh*tty Lando novel that seems like exterior the Star Wars universe however nonetheless in it. I feel that’s why folks like him. He’s essentially the most elastic of the characters since you don’t know the place he’s from or who he’s. There’s solely actually these three little books, so yeah, like I used to be, man, that was dope to play him. It was enjoyable”.
On assembly Billy Dee Williams for the primary time:
“I met Billy Dee proper earlier than I performed him. I keep in mind that day very well. We met at Little Dom’s, and he was only a humorous man, and we talked a couple of bunch of different stuff like I wished to know what did you’re feeling like – all that sort of stuff. And I wished to actually get into (it) trigger I actually didn’t wish to let anyone down. And I bear in mind he was speaking about, “Oh, you’ve been to Hawaii? I bought married in Hawaii”. He had all of those nice tales. But I stored being like, Yes, Sir um, sir, what do I do to play (Lando), and he actually goes “Just be charming”. He was like, “Just be charming, that’s just about it. That’s the key”. And I used to be like, “Okay.” I suppose he’s proper, like Lando’s allure incarnate, which, , he’s sort of a maverick which I don’t suppose there’s loads of any extra. It’s arduous to be just like the “easy talker” these days. But I feel that’s additionally the place the hazard is. It’s like how shut are you able to get with out tripping over it?”
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Glover additionally talked about presumably enjoying Lando Calrissian once more and hinted at one thing already being within the works:
“I’d like to play Lando once more. It’s a enjoyable time to be him. It simply needs to be the best approach to do it. I’m all about, like, now it’s like, , time is treasured. I feel everyone’s, like, , the previous couple of years when the pandemic hit – actually had folks expertise time in a approach the place they’re like, “I needs to be round oranges”. People sort of notice their time is efficacious, ? You solely get a lot, so I’m not enthusiastic about doing something that’s simply gonna be a waste of my time or only a paycheck. I’d a lot fairly, , spend time with folks that I get pleasure from. So it simply needs to be the best factor. Which I feel it could possibly be; I imply, Lando’s positively any individual I’d like to hang around with. So yeah, I imply, we’re speaking about it. That’s as a lot as I can say with out Kathleen Kennedy looking me down”.
It’s attention-grabbing that Glover mentions the Lando present remains to be being mentioned. Hopefully, we’ll get extra data on this at SWCE 2023 this week.
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