The hero, of course! Luke is the clean-livin’, hard-workin’, elders-respectin’, sister-kissin’, all-American boy from Tatooine whose adventures form the backbone of the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy. Lando returns (played by 2018’s man of the year Donald ‘Childish Gambino’ Glover) in ‘ Solo’, and if anything, the character is even more complex and charismatic, flirting madly with his droid sidekick 元-37 and generally treating the galaxy like his personal playground. In ‘ The Empire Strikes Back’ Lando is at once enigmatic, despicable and dapper as hell and if the newly promoted General Calrissian goes a little soft in ‘ Return of the Jedi’, Billy Dee Williams’s sheer personal charm carries the character through.
But look deeper and Calrissian’s matinee-idol charm and un-‘Star Wars’-like moral ambiguity make him one of the most intriguing figures in the series. And yes, accusations of tokenism are hard to refute (his initial characterisation as a treacherous, womanising sleazebag didn’t help).
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Yes, Lando was written into the series after complaints about the absence of black characters in ‘Star Wars’. The ultimate charmer, a ramblin’, gamblin’ man who turns his back on his crooked, card-sharping ways to pursue a respectable career as a mining administrator and, ultimately, a Rebel Alliance hero. Key line: ‘You will remove these restraints and leave this cell with the door open.’ The way she ‘handles’ John Boyega’s Finn is hilarious, too – we can’t wait to see where that relationship goes.
Watching actress Daisy Ridley bound up those stone steps on the planet Ahch-To in the final moments of ‘The Force Awakens’, we couldn’t help but be reminded of the BBC fantasy stories we loved as kids: ‘The Owl Service’ or ‘The Secret Garden’, perhaps, with their feisty stage-school heroines.
The mysterious heroine of ‘ The Force Awakens’, a young orphan with a hidden past who dreams of escape from her drab, backwater existence – but when she gets the chance, isn’t sure if adventure was such a great idea after all. The mysterious heroine of ‘The Force Awakens’, a young orphan with a hidden past who dreams of escape from her drab, backwater existence – but when she gets the chance, isn’t sure if adventure was such a great idea after all.īecause she’s like something out of an old-fashioned British kids adventure novel: plucky, proud and a bit posh, with nerves of steel and a whip-smart mouth.
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