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I spotted Billy Dee Williams explaining the mindset of Lando Calrissian over at Wired:

And it immediately made me think of Octavia Butler’s take:

I’m glad he was there, but watching Billy Dee Williams play that role was like watching Jesus Christ Superstar and realizing we’d finally made it into Biblical films: we could play Judas.

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