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Billy Dee Williams Spent ‘a Lot of Years’ Getting Yelled at by Angry ‘Star Wars’ Fans: ‘You Betrayed Han Solo!’


Billy Dee Williams is tired of "Star Wars" fans coming up to him and saying that Lando betrayed Han Solo.

Billy Dee Williams appeared on Entertainment Weekly’s “Dagobah Dispatch” podcast and discussed the backlash he’s faced throughout the years due to the “ Star Wars ” franchise. Williams would reprise the role of Lando in “Return of the Jedi” (1983) and “The Rise of Skywalker” (2019), while a younger version of the character was played by Donald Glover in “Solo” (2018). News broke last July that Glover and his brother, Stephen, had been tapped by Disney and Lucasfilm to replace Justin Simien as the writers of a new “ Lando ” television series on Disney+.

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