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“What are they trying to hide?” asked no one after Donald Glover appeared in only five shots in the commercial and teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and delivered no lines of dialogue (other than a couple of startled shouts during the stinger at the end of the teaser).
It is kind of funny that no one complained about that, though. Instead, everyone on social media melted down over what precious little they got of Glover as Lando in that first-look footage. On today’s podcast, I’m considering the possibility that Lucasfilm may have followed the “less is more” strategy that dates all the way back to Boba Fett and Aurra Sing. And when you think about it, there were a couple of signature Lando elements in even those brief snippets…