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Lando: Hey, I’m going to Taco Bell, you want anything?
L-3: Equal rights.
Lando: Yeah, I’ve got like $12.
I’m losing my shit over these new characters’ names. We’ve got:
– Enfys Nest, whose name has a general bird/sky motif rather than just blatant wordplay: her first name is Welsh for ‘rainbow’, she leads a gang called the Cloud Riders, and her armor looks like a robotic secretary bird gijinka
– Moloch, who looks like a cave cricket, and is named after another name for the cave cricket
– Therm (short for Thermidor?) Scissorpunch, because Lobster McLobsterdish was a little too on the nose
-and Argus ‘Six Eyes’ Panox, who’s named after a many-eyed servant of Hera from Greek mythology and whose surname sounds like “pan ocs”, because the writers REALLY wanted us to know this dude had a lot of eyes
tl;dr I honestly feel a lot better about the main robot’s name literally being L337 now because it turns out everyone else in this damn movie also has names based on shitty puns and it’s kind of amazing
“I ask Ehrenreich if it’s possible to go Day-Lewis deep on a character like this. “It’s easier than you’d think,” he says, “because there’s so much information on Star Wars. I did a movie about the Iraq War right before this, and there’s almost as much information about Star Wars.” He delved into Wookieepedia, a fan-curated online reference source that’s exactly what it sounds like. He likes the idea that everything the characters do in this film, every place they visit, will become part of the lexicon. They’re writing directly into the canon. “The wardrobe is a big part,” he says. “I remember doing my audition on the Falcon, putting on the jeans with the Corellian bloodstripe”—per Wookieepedia, “an award for conspicuous gallantry given by the Corellian military forces”—“and thinking, Oh, yeah. This is Star Wars. Like, this really is Star Wars now.”
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