SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Writers Confirm Lando Calrissian To Be Pansexual

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Writers Confirm Lando Calrissian To Be Pansexual

Solo: A Star Wars Story writers Johnathan and Lawrence Kasdan spoke recently in an interview about Lando Calrissian's sexuality. They confirmed that he is indeed pansexual. Read on for more!

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By Velvet - May 19, 2018 09:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Comic Book
Lando Calrissian is a popular Star Wars character first portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back back in 1980. He emerged as a fan favorite and is now being portrayed by star Donald Glover in the prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story. Since his debut, the character of Lando has become a sex symbol and potential love interest for Star Wars characters of many different genders and species. This is what Solo writers had to say when asked about Lando's sexuality...

"I would say yes," writer Johnathan Kasdan answered when asked whether or not Lando was pansexual. "There's a fludity to Donald Glover's and Billy Dee's portrayal of Lando's sexuality." 

"I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie," Kasdan continued. "I think it's time, certainly, for that, and I love that fludity - sort of the spectrum that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of." 

At one point in the film, Lando's droid companion L3-37 makes a reference to Lando and Han flirting around. This could potentially show some genuine attraction between the smugglers or something more. It is definitely great for more characters in big blockbusters to be representative of the LGBTQIA group. 

What do you think of this news? Do you plan to watch Solo: A Star Wars Story in theaters next week? Sound off below!
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MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 5/19/2018, 10:05 PM
If it doesn’t factor into the plot then it ain’t worth no never mind.
TomSolo
TomSolo - 5/19/2018, 10:10 PM
This is silly. If that's how you are going to write the chatacter, then fine, but have the stones to actually put it in the film.

I'm really tired of writers and authors (Rowling... I am looking in your direction) saying a character is LGBTQ without writing it into the script or book. It's straight up pandering to that crowd and making it appear that you are being inclusive of those people when you really aren't. Or you don't want to take the risk on screen. It's cowardly.

If Lando is pansexual, then show it in the movie. Otherwise, just say "maybe". Or, "We wanted to, but we weren't allowed." Something like that.
FrankieDedo
FrankieDedo - 5/20/2018, 8:37 AM
@TomSolo - Yes, but no. Showing it into the movie could be done in a implicit way. For example, the intonation he says certain things, the way he looks other characters etc. Telling the actors that Lando is pansexual is just a more subtle way of doing it.

Also, Star Wars never showed the sexual preferences of the characters but you could guess that. Lando being more sexually fluid than Han or Luke makes sense, looking at the Billy Dee Williams version, or even at the bits we saw of the Glover version.

Telling explicitly the sexuality of a character is not something a Star Wars movie should have. Don't get me wrong, i think that representation matters A LOT, but giving details of the characters to the actors, in order to better define their impersonation is the right thing to do here, in my opinion.
TomSolo
TomSolo - 5/20/2018, 8:47 AM
@FrankieDedo - I respect that. Personally, I feel they should put it in the script if the writers are going to promote characters off screen as diverse in this way.

But that's just how I feel. Thank you for the civil conversation.
MrMartyMarvel
MrMartyMarvel - 5/19/2018, 10:18 PM
Well, we're never gonna see him [frick] a guy... or any other gender "pansexual" implies exists, so... it probably doesn't matter. Great job, you've done nothing.
TomSolo
TomSolo - 5/19/2018, 10:26 PM
@MrMartyMarvel - Agreed. I mean, there is obviously never going to be a sex scene in a Star Wars film, but if they want Lando to be pansexual, there ways of making it clear in the film. Otherwise, it's just fan-fiction to say it later.

Do it or don't.
QuiGonsGhost
QuiGonsGhost - 5/19/2018, 10:42 PM
I mean, probably shagged lots of alien species with lots of different physiological outlooks , same as any space character tbh, so it isn't completely out the window... Agreed though, within Star Wars movies it's practically irrelevant.
TerryTerrapin
TerryTerrapin - 5/19/2018, 10:42 PM
Pansexuality is a load of old bollocks. To me, anyone who has romantic feelings towards men and women, is bisexual. The whole idea that a pansexual person can love transgenders or gender fluid people is bullshit. It doesn't matter if the object of your desire identifies as a man on Monday and a woman on Tuesday, you're still attracted to the individual therefore you are bisexual.
JacuzziJoe
JacuzziJoe - 5/20/2018, 2:43 AM
@TerryTerrapin - Some people find attraction in personality, not physicality. There is /some/ beauty in this world, after all.
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 5/20/2018, 4:55 AM
@TerryTerrapin - while I somewhat agree. Even if you are attracted to a trans woman you are still attracted to the "female form", thus bisexuality.

However, when it comes to Star Wars. We have many interspecies attractions. It's seems universally that Twilek females are the most attractive beings in the universe, I think that's when pansexuality can be used.
Battabing
Battabing - 5/19/2018, 10:42 PM
Oh Disney, will your queerbaiting to sell tickets never end?
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/19/2018, 10:44 PM
Hey man, if he wants to have sex with cookware more power to him. I'm a cast iron skillet guy myself.
case
case - 5/19/2018, 10:47 PM
@L0RDbuckethead - This shouldn't have made me laugh. But it did.
KWilly
KWilly - 5/20/2018, 4:32 AM
@L0RDbuckethead - Genius comment, lol.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/20/2018, 12:13 PM
@KWilly
@case
I mean, can you blame Lando???
Kyos
Kyos - 5/19/2018, 11:06 PM
[SPOILERS, maybe??] Well, as one review said it:

"[...] Solo will go down in Lucasfilm history as the movie that conclusively affirmed that humans can and do have sex with droids."
SisterSunday52
SisterSunday52 - 5/19/2018, 11:14 PM
I'm fine with Lando being pansexual. I mean the fact that he charmed almost the entire crew of the Ghost demonstrates this. That said, does it have to be demonstrated with Han?

I am sick of this insistence, in entertainment, on close friends having to be in a romantic relationship all the time. You can have a bond with a friend of the same, or different gender without it becoming a romantic relationship. Just ugh!
MikeyL
MikeyL - 5/19/2018, 11:15 PM
If there’s no sold evidence on screen or in official companion pieces, it’s not canon. Pure fact. Don’t try and get the LGBTQA+ community behind this film with shit like that, we’re tired of it. We honestly don’t care anymore if a character is anything other than straight. IF. IT. IS. NOT. SHOWN. It’s not representation if it’s something you have to dig for.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/19/2018, 11:48 PM
....
FromACertainPOV
FromACertainPOV - 5/20/2018, 12:13 AM
Wow, I’m actually really proud of CBM.com. I had this article written and sitting in the queue but was too tired and exhausted to weather the storm that I was sure would accompany talking about sexuality in pop-culture and have to confront the mass ignorant and offensive cognitive dissonance brought by bigotry that so often emerges with things like this.

So imagine my wonderful surprise when I arrive here and see that the outrage isn’t the fact that a Star Wars character has been revealed as LGBT by its writer, but that a Star Wars character has revealed to be queer ONLY by its writer and not textually in the film.

You’re outrage is coming from the right place. You’ve made this tired bisexual geek very happy CBM 🌈
TomSolo
TomSolo - 5/20/2018, 8:33 AM
@FromACertainPOV - Glad you wrote about it. I saw this in the news days ago and couldn’t understand why there was no article here.

Also glad to see the responses as well. Maybe we are all growing a bit.
FromACertainPOV
FromACertainPOV - 5/20/2018, 8:40 AM
@TomSolo - While I did indeed write an article about this a couple of days ago, I left it in the queue and didn't actually publish it.

I had just had an altercation discussing identity in pop-culture online elsewhere that made me less than enthused on the chance of going through that again here. It's exhausting defending the acknowledgement of your existence.

So the credit for this article should go to @Velvet but I agree with you, the ratio of positive to negative comments is certainly refreshing and there are a number of users on here taking those latter ones to task that I now hold in higher esteem for it.
TomSolo
TomSolo - 5/20/2018, 8:59 AM
@FromACertainPOV - I am straight and white but I wish folks didn't have to go through these things. I am not super social, but I work with a super-diverse group of people. The stories I hear from them are sometimes heartbreaking.

I guess I just want entertainment to actually depict others, and not as "that character". Acknowledge them for who they are but portray them as people. Like Captain Holt on Brooklyn Nine Nine. They never shy away from his sexuality, but they also don't stereotype it. They write him as clearly gay, but moreso as a real person.

And that is what I would like to see more of. Not just talking about it and insinuating it. Because I think it would help folks to understand that their lifestyle is not under attack just because some guys likes guys.
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