When the leaks from The Mandalorian and Grogu first came out, a lot of Star Wars fans thought it was a joke. The guy from The Bear? Playing a “buff” Hutt?? Who is actually the grown-up version of Rotta the Hutt, the MacGuffin from the original Clone Wars movie??? It seemed like the thing a satire site would post, but sure enough, Jeremy Allen White will, in fact, play Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt who has now grown up to become a mighty gladiator.
But how will this character be handled in the movie? Why include a one-off character from twenty years ago that Ahsoka Tano nicknamed “Stinky”? The answer may actually be one of the smartest observations of Star Wars culture, especially in the wake of the sequel trilogy.
