Donald Glover confirmed that his character Lando Calrissian’s sexuality is fluid in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and labeled him “pansexual.”
The term refers to a person who is “not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.”
“How can you not be pansexual in space,” the 34-year-old actor said in an interview that will air Thursday on SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio.” “There are so many things to have sex with. I didn’t think that was that weird.”
Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala – Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between New York City, U.S. Actor and singer Donald Glover. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
“Yeah, he’s coming on to everybody,” he added. “I mean, yeah, whatever. It just didn’t seem that weird to me ’cause I feel like if you’re in space it’s kind of like, the door is open! It’s like, no, only guys or girls. No, it’s anything. This thing is literally a blob. Are you a man or a woman? Like, who cares? Have good time out here.”
The comments came following ones made last week when one of the writers of the latest movie in the “Star Wars” franchise, Jonathan Kasdan, was asked if Glover’s character was “pansexual.”
“I would say yes,” Kasdan told HuffPost. “There’s a fluidity to Donald 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. 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 [Glover] doesn’t make any hard and fast rules. I think it’s fun. I don’t know where it will go.”
Lando (played by Billy Dee Williams) was full of charm in the “Star Wars” original trilogy movies and even flirted with Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) right in front of Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” hits theaters May 25.