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Adam Holmes

We Finally Know Why Jeremy Allen White’s Mandalorian And Grogu Hutt Character Is So Jacked As First Full Look Drops

A jacked hutt flexes for the crowd.

When The Mandalorian and Grogu opens on the 2026 movies schedule in May, you won’t see The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, only hear him. That’s because he’s voicing Rotta the Hutt in the upcoming Star Wars movie, and our first teasing look at Jabba’s adult son in the teaser trailer released last September showed he’s ridiculously muscular. Now the first full look at Rotta in The Mandalorian and Grogu has dropped, and it comes for an explanation from director Jon Favreau about why he’s so jacked.

Rotta was previously depicted as an infant in the 2008 movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the episode “Sphere of Influence” of the same-named follow-up TV series. The Mandalorian and Grogu takes place roughly three decades later, and now the Hutt definitely looks like he has no problem holding his own in a fight. Check it out:

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