Were You Waiting for Lupita Nyong’o’s Star Wars Character Maz Kanata to Be Revealed? She Was.
That alien on the poster is her, JJ Abrams confirmed today. Hers is also the voice-over you’ve been hearing in the recent trailers and TV spots, but I think we all knew that. So basically Maz Kanata is the new Yoda, is what I’m thinking. Or rather, thinking that, I am.
They couldn’t have just hired Linda Hunt, huh?
About The Author
Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist