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Smooth Operator
Donning sunglasses while on stage, Billy Dee Williams shed a little light about his character Lando Calrissian. Asked by host Warwick Davis to explain why Lando ended up as so smooth a character on screen, Williams explained that he was given two things to work with as an actor when he was first handed the role: "The cape and [the name] Calrissian." He continued, "I didn't want to do a clichéd character. I wanted to bring something special to it."
Donning sunglasses while on stage, Billy Dee Williams shed a little light about his character Lando Calrissian. Asked by host Warwick Davis to explain why Lando ended up as so smooth a character on screen, Williams explained that he was given two things to work with as an actor when he was first handed the role: "The cape and [the name] Calrissian." He continued, "I didn't want to do a clichéd character. I wanted to bring something special to it."
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