Star Wars: 10 actors we’d love to see joining the franchise
LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER 07: Sebastian Stan attends the 2017 GQ Men of the Year party at Chateau Marmont on December 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for GQ)
Sebastian Stan
So much has been made of the fact that Sebastian Stan looks an awful lot like a really dark-haired Luke Skywalker that Mark Hamill himself has called him “son” on Twitter. And, if Lucasfilm really wants us to trust it again when it comes to casting younger versions of the original trilogy’s main characters again after making us all worry with Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, then Stan as post-Original Trilogy, pre-The Force Awakens Luke Skywalker seems like an easy choice.
Besides, he’s proven he can do a lot with a little in a major franchise — check out his work as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He could probably knock a major role in Star Wars out with no sweat.
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 01: Actress Millie Bobby Brown attends SiriusXM’s ‘Town Hall’ with the cast of Stranger Things on SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio on November 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Millie Bobby Brown
See the above about looking like actors who have already made their mark on the franchise, then substitute in both Natalie Portman and Carrie Fisher (as Buckie Wells herself has noted for this site previously) for Mark Hamill and Millie Bobby Brown for Sebastian Stan, and you basically have my argument here.
But I’m not the only Culturess writer who has expressed interest in the Stranger Things actress moving to another big work in science fiction, as linked above.
Sure, it’d mean growing out her hair (or wearing a lot of extensions) to take on the role of Princess Leia Organa or Padmé Amidala, but haven’t you always wondered what it would be like to be 14 and be a queen? The Phantom Menace doesn’t really touch on that part so much for Padmé, and we definitely wouldn’t mind a young Leia movie, either.