Not only are a bunch of your new favorites returning, but we're getting Benicio Del Toro and Laura Dern! Director Rian Johnson told Vanity Fair that Del Toro's role is as a "shady character of unclear allegiances" who doesn't have a name but has been dubbed "DJ" by the production team. "You'll see — there's a reason why we call him DJ," he said. Maybe the character is the DJ Khaled of space? Details about the Big Little Lies star's role in the film are a little less mysterious, since it was also revealed in Vanity Fair that she's playing Vice Admiral Holdo, "a prominent officer in the Resistance" who dresses head to toe in pink.
Meanwhile, Finn (Boyega) will be teaming up with a maintenance worker named Rose Tico, played by About a Boy actress Kelly Marie Tran. While Rose helps the stormtroooper-turned-Resistance fighter on their dangerous new mission, her sister, Paige Tico (played by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny's Veronica Ngo), stays behind to learn from fighter pilot Poe Dameron (Isaac).
