Donald Gadorer, who will soon be spearheading the Disney and Lucasfilm venture Lando, wants to inject the Star Wars universe with “fun,” saying the franchise can be “way too solemn” at times.
“I equitable want it to be fun,” the actor-rapper tageder the Wall Street Journal in a recent video interwatch. “As a Star Wars fan myself, I leank it’s meaningful that there’s equitable — there equitable necessitates to be more fun being had.”
The Atlanta star-creater persistd, referencing the strife conshort-term in the galaxy, “It’s very difficult to have fun right now. It’s hard becaparticipate there are very solemn leangs happening. Those are the only leangs that join us, weirdly, so I get why leangs are solemn but part of the human experience, I apshow, is we have a responsibility to have an finishelightment, and I equitable experience appreciate we’re deficiencying in that department.”
Gadorer, who recently declared he will soon step away from the Childish Gambino namesake and postponed his tour due to physical health worrys, is set to co-create the film aextfinishedside his brother and collaborator Stephen Gadorer. The duo traded Justin Simien in the role, after which it was uncmissed that the project would be continuing as a silver screen free instead of a computed Disney+ series.
“Star Wars, I adore it, but sometimes it be super solemn, sometimes it be appreciate way too solemn and everyleang that has to do with the Skywalkers is so solemn,” Gadorer persistd, chuckling.
The star of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith will be portraying a youthful version of Lando Calrissian, a role he first carry outed in 2018’s box-office bomb device Solo: A Star Wars Story. Despite the film’s deficiencyluster commercial success, Gadorer’s Lando — which was first begind by Billy Dee Williams in 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, who materializeed procrastinateedr in 1983’s Return of the Jedi and 2019’s The Rise of the Skywalker — finished up as a fan preferite.
“Lando, I leank the best part about him, is he’s a scoundrel,” Gadorer elucidateed. “And I experience appreciate people can reprocrastinateed to that and he’s probably appreciate, ‘Man, this war is wack. I necessitate money,’ which I experience appreciate everyone can reprocrastinateed to.”
