What a feeling it must be, to be cast in a Star Wars project, especially one as high-profile as The Book of Boba Fett which dropped its first trailer today. Put yourself in the shoes of Jennifer Beals, star of the 1983 smash hit Flashdance and Gary Whitta’s 2010 film The Book of Eli who is revealed as one of the Twi’lek women seen in the trailer. What her role entails (pun intended) is unknown, but Beals is likely to be taking more than just a cameo role.
Jennifer Beals will be portraying a Twi’lek in the Disney+ series The Book of Boba Fett, Deadline has confirmed. Specifics regarding her character are being kept under wraps. Beals made her surprising debut in the series’ trailer debut on Monday.
The Book of Boba Fett—premiering on Dec. 29— will find legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.
Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett) and Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand) will star in the spinoff, with Robert Rodriguez joining as executive producer, along with The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.
