Apparently, one of the most badass characters in “Star Wars,” Lando Calrissian, is really a sexually fluid pansexual, which means he swings not just both ways, but front ways and back ways and all the ways in the sexual lexicon.
In a recent interview with HuffPo, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan, son of famed screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, indeed confirmed Calrissian’s sexuality, which was apparently the stuff of curiosity for some people all these years.
“I would say yes,” Jonathan Kasdan said.
Filling the shoes of Billy Dee Williams, the iconic role of Lando Calrissian will be played by actor/musical artist Donald Glover.
Kasdan even said he could not implement his full vision to have an explicit LGBT character in the movie.
“There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” Kasdan told the Huffington Post. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity ― sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.”
“He doesn’t make any hard and fast rules. I think it’s fun,” Kasdan said. “I”don’t know where it will go.”
Jonathan indicated that the movie will drop hints about sexuality in the “Star Wars” universe and how it differs from our world.
“There’s a line that [Jon Favreau’s character, Rio] has where he’s asking Han about the girl that he left behind, and he says, ‘Does she have big teeth?'” Jonathan Kasdan explains. “It’s a joke in the movie, but we did want to hit on this idea that people’s ideas of what they’re attracted to all over the galaxy are very, very different and not exactly as set as ours are.”
That basically means both Han Solo and Lando Calrissian get cozy with beings outside their species, something Captain Kirk did in “Star Trek” ages ago.
This type of progressive Easter egg throwing is becoming par for the course regarding the “Star Wars” franchise. Prior to the release of “Rogue One” and on the heels of President Trump’s election, screenwriters Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz said “the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organization” that is “opposed by a multicultural group led by brave women.”