{"id":50506,"date":"2016-11-10T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=50506"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T01:43:16","slug":"donald-glovers-first-action-figure-was-lando-calrissian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/donald-glovers-first-action-figure-was-lando-calrissian\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lando Calrissian, Donald Glover&#8217;s First Action Figure was Lando Calrissian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Glover, the acclaimed actor and rapper, will be appearing in the upcoming Han Solo spinoff film as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/donald-glover-cast-as-lando-calrissian-in-standalone-han-solo-film\/\">young Lando Calrissian<\/a>. In a recent interview with <em>Ellen<\/em> he chatted about the role and how incredible it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really crazy. I&#8217;m very honored,&#8221; said Glover about the casting news. He reveals that he\u2019s been a fan of the franchise since he was a child, and the very first action figure he owned was the suave ex-smuggler himself. &#8220;That was the first toy I had &#8211; Lando. That was the very first. I remember it like yesterday. My dad gave it to me. I had a Darth Vader one, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His parents were among the first that he called to break the news to. His mom, a big Billy Dee Williams fan, advised him to not mess it up. The role is definitely some big shoes to fill, not to mention a large cape to wear!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1weE_ly9crs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The yet untitled Han Solo film will be directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and is expected to hit theaters in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited for the next Star Wars spinoff film? What do you think of Donald Glover\u2019s casting? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Donald Glover, the acclaimed actor and rapper, will be appearing in the upcoming Han Solo spinoff film as young Lando Calrissian. In a recent interview with Ellen he chatted about the role and how incredible it is. &#8220;It&#8217;s really crazy. I&#8217;m very honored,&#8221; said Glover about the casting news. He reveals that he\u2019s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389],"tags":[3145,112,373,1703,3985,419,4739,2685],"yst_prominent_words":[8617,7487,9950,8184,6413,7476,7462,7441,7466,8534,7480,7470,19393,28807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64094,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50506\/revisions\/64094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50506"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}