Billy Dee Williams keeps it suave in his new shoot for Esquire‘s Winter issue, on newsstands December 3.
Here’s what the 82-year-old Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker actor had to share with the mag:
On the one simple step to being cool: “Be yourself. I never tried to be anything except myself. I think of myself as a relatively colorful character who doesn’t take himself or herself too seriously…And you see I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also see myself as feminine as well as masculine. I’m a very soft person. I’m not afraid to show that side of myself.”
On his portrayal of Lando Calrissian: “What I presented on that screen people didn’t expect to see. And I deliberately presented something that nobody had experienced before: a romantic brown-skinned boy.”
On Carrie Fisher’s and Harrison Ford’s romance (which was described in Carrie’s memoir): “As far as I’m concerned, I mean, I don’t care what people are—if they’re f–king each other and they’re sucking each other, whatever they’re doing, that’s fine with me. I don’t care.”
On what Lando has been doing between Return of the Jedi and the events of the new trilogy: “I always imagined Lando being like Steve Wynn, running Las Vegas. Because he’s a gambler. But he was a bit of a showman, a bit of an entrepreneur. That’s how I see Lando. I never necessarily saw him as a general running around shooting things.”
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