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  • February 18, 2025
It looks like Jeremy Allen White is joining The Mandalorian and Grogu, but I’m honestly shocked at the Star Wars character he’s reportedly playing

It looks like Jeremy Allen White is joining The Mandalorian and Grogu, but I’m honestly shocked at the Star Wars character he’s reportedly playing

Although there are many expectant Star Wars movies in various stages of development, only one of them has a release date set. The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released in May 2026while the filming was completed just a few days ago. This has now been reported The Bear star Jeremy Allen White is reportedly joining the cast of The Mandalorian spinoff film, but I’m honestly shocked when I heard about the character he would play in the first cinematic sequel to The Rise of Skywalker.

Originally reported The InSneider and confirmed by outlets such as TermIt is said that White will voice Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt. Rotta was previously seen in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and in an episode of the sequel The Clone Wars TV series, in which he was voiced by David Acord. Assuming White’s casting is legit, he’ll be the second new actor to come on board The Mandalorian & Grogu, Sigourney Weaver be the first, although we don’t know who she’s playing against.

Ahsoka Tano holds Rotta the Hutt in the movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars

(Image credit: Lucasfilm)

On the one hand, hearing Jeremy Allen White will join the Star Wars franchise is great to hear, especially considering this news comes just hours after he was nominated for another Golden Globe for his performance as Carmy Berzatto in The Bearwhich can be streamed with a Hulu subscription. On the other hand… what? Get White on board The Mandalorian and Grogu pronounce a Hutt? That just sounds bizarre to me, since one of those slug-like creatures wouldn’t immediately come to mind when thinking about a role White might play in a galaxy far, far away.