Billy Dee Williams Says Donald Glover Is ‘Talented’ in Star Wars, but ‘There’s Only One Lando Calrissian’

Billy Dee Williams shares his thoughts on Donald Glover playing his predecessor Star Wars role, Lando Calrissian.

“I had a nice little lunch with him,” Williams, 86, told the UK magazine Radio Times earlier this month. “He is a wonderful young man. Extremely talented. But I don’t see him… I mean, when it comes to Lando Calrissian, there’s only one Lando Calrissian. I created that character.”

“I told him to be charming — two words!” the actor continued. “That’s all I had to tell him. That’s all I could think of.”

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Billy Dee Williams in ‘Return of the Jedi’.

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“He’s part of a whole new generation,” Williams said of Glover, 40. “He’s going to create whatever he needs to create, to bring appeal to the character. He’s a very talented young man and very imaginative. I mean, it’s not like I’m saying what would should have done with the character at this stage.”

“I took care of the 20th century, now he has to take care of the 21st,” he added.

Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’.

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Williams portrayed the role of Lando Calrissian in the 1980s The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi in 1983 and The Rise of Skywalker In 2019, however, Glover played a younger version of Lando in 2018. Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Mr. and Mrs. Smith star is also set to reprise his role in a feature film after previously working on Star Wars spinoff series with his brother Stephen Glover.

“It’s not even a show,” Stephen said in one episode Pablo Torre reveals podcast, trans Deadline. “Currently, the idea is to make a film. … Right now because of the strike, it’s like [a game of] phone.”

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