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With a Spring/Summer 2019 collaboration with mega retailer BoohooMan.com, hip-hop star Quavo has officially joined the celebrity fashion designer frontier. The technicolor collection offers a total of 200 menswear items […]
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The Episode IX trailer for the latest Star Wars movie was just released. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be the space series’ most diverse casting since the first movie premiered in 1977. People of color including leading man John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Naomi Ackie, and the return of Billy Dee Williams in the iconic role of Lando Calrissian, are front and center in the latest episode.
And while there was controversy over the casting of John Boyega, a black British actor as a Stormtrooper in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, there have been iconic black actors and characters throughout the Star Wars universe. Here are seven of the best known.
Black Characters Star Wars Characters
Mace Windu
Played by: Samuel L. Jackson
Film: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, 1999
(Image: Facebook)
2. Lando Calrissian
Played by: Billy Dee Williams
Films: The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi
(Image: Facebook)
3. Maz Kanata
Played by: Lupita Nyong’o
Film: The Force Awakens
(Image: Facebook)
4. Voice of Darth Vader
Played by: James Earl Jones
Films: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back; Return of the Jedi
(Image: iStock/tihomir_todorov)
5. Jabba the Hutt’s Twi’lek slave dancer Oola
Played by: Femi Taylor
Film: Return of the Jedi
(Image: Facebook)
6. Finn
Played by: John Boyega
Film: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi
(Image: Wikimedia)
7. Rachel
Played by: Crystal Clarke
Film: The Force Awakens
(Image: Instagram)
Check out the trailer to Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker:
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Editors’ Note: This article has been updated from its original publish date in 2017.
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It’s here! The final piece of the Skywalker saga arrives this December and on this day we are gifted with a teaser trailer for Episode IX!
There is always something special about Star Wars and its desert locales. So when the trailer jumps off in the midst of an endless desert, you just know some realness about to go down. Rey’s controlled breaths open the trailer. She rocking that all white Jedi outfit with the Wesley Snipes in the 90s collar. She’s looking like she been in the dojo just training. The camera pans slowly down to her waist; where she is holding the Han Solo-issued gat from Episode VIII on one hip and Anakin’s lightsaber on the other! The whole time this is happening we hear the familiar rising whine of Industrial Light & Magic’s vehicle sound effect roaring across the sands.
Rey eyeballs the approaching speeder, pops her lightsaber, shifts position facing away from it and starts booking it! Is she playing lightsaber chicken with a landspeeder?!? No, she’s playing lightsaber chicken with a TIE Interceptor! You know, just a space-ready craft, the ship that Vader used to whip through the cosmos like a Honda Accord! Yeah, that one. We see some familiar gloved hands accelerate the ship right before Rey hits the bullet time butterfly kick, like, is she really about to battle to whole ass space fighter with her bare hands?!? Yes.
Then we catch up with your boy Kylo Ren, catching bodies as per usual, but now he’s rolling through red-tinted woods with some Stormtroopers putting the two-handed lightsaber to everything in his way. Kylo is getting in touch with his inner Spartan, clearly. Meanwhile, his helmet is being restored to its former emo greatness, as if to recall his adoration for his grandfather, Anakin. I’m sensing a theme here.
We get the montage of fanfic’s finest Finn and Poe Dameron, looking fly and focused. BB8 and his new droid homie Dio giving the best digital side-eye money can buy. Chewie doing his best to co-pilot the Millenium Falcon through hyperspace alongside Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian! Let that sink in, it works 60% of the time – every time. JJ Abrams is going for the nostalgic jugular.
After that, we get the secondary montage of some of the last footage we get of Carrie Fisher’s Leia hugging it out with Rey (with the one thug tear) and then the close up of the medal that the Rebels gave Han, Luke, and Chewie in Episode IV. I’m not crying, you’re crying!
Then we see the next-gen squad surveying a vista from a cliff into a dark sea. In the far distance, past the towering waves, are the giant broken pieces of The Death Star! Now I’m all in a glass case of emotions, I’m hyped, but I’m afraid, I’m hyped that I’m afraid. In the milliseconds that the screen goes dark, my mind is blown and overwhelmed. Then. Then?!? I hear Carrie Fisher solemnly say, “No one’s ever really gone.” Again, I’m not crying, you are! Then?!? I hear that laugh, filled to the brim with unlimited power. The cackle of Palpatine!
I’m a mess at this point, just mop me and my emotions up off the floor of the Tatooine Cantina. But wait, there’s more; the title reads Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. I’m like, wait, are we calling force users ‘Skywalkers’ now? Is Rey a Skywalker like Kylo is? Are they related? Am I crying? Maybe! Either way, this teaser trailer is one for the community to mull over for months to come.
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Ever see a reaction to something and laugh for the next three days? That’s definitely going to be me with Sebastian Stan’s “Ok.” response to his new Disney+ show. In case you don’t believe me that this was his only response—posted alongside the new logo for the Falcon/Winter Soldier show, officially announced yesterday—here you go! Please use this as a reaction image for anything and everything.
The stars of the three big Marvel shows announced last night all had wonderful reactions to their new projects—except for Sebastian Stan’s “Ok.” and Anthony Mackie not posting a thing, which, I argue, is the most on-brand either of them have ever been.
Tom Hiddleston’s reaction came back in November when they first announced that a Loki series was being developed for Disney+. It was short, sweet, and shared all the mischief that we’ve come to know out of Loki.
— Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) November 9, 2018
Last night, both Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany shared their excitement about working together once more on WandaVision, a show documenting more of Wanda Maximoff and that floppy disk that Tony Stark and Bruce Banner created.
But still, the one that takes the cake has to be Sebastian Stan. Now, I know I’m biased because he’s my favorite, but also … his reaction is all of us, really, when we’ve known about this stuff for months and were just starving for confirmation. It is perfect.
To say I’m excited about all of these shows is putting it mildly. I love the idea of Marvel expanding their characters with series so we can see more of our favorites in a new context and not be limited to their few lines in a movie (Bucky Barnes, for example, has not even had 1 hour of combined screen time in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, so … this will be fun).
Disney+’s platform launch on November 12th cannot come soon enough! I’m ready to hear Bucky Barnes speak! Ok? Ok.
(image: Marvel Entertainment)
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