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Solo A Star Wars Story: Phobe Waller-Bridge Didn't Know She was Auditioning for a Droid


Besides Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been getting some special praise from Solo: A Star Wars Story for playing Lando's co-pilot L3-37. What's funny is, when Waller-Bridge auditioned for the part, she didn't know that she would be playing a droid.

Talking to CinemaBlend, Waller-Bridge explained:

"I was going to the audition and I thought, 'this character is amazing, she's a revolutionary, she's really cool', and the dialogue was amazing and it said, just in one of the stage directions, 'droid'. So I was like, 'Droid...droid...what's a droid?' And then I Googled a droid and then, nothing much really came up with the pictures, it wasn't explicitly a robot. I was in the taxi on the way to the audition and I was like, 'shit, I really should know what a droid is', and I was asking my taxi driver, he was like, 'I don't know what a droid is'. And he called his family, like 'what's a droid?'

Though some fans may take issue that Waller-Bridge isn't a "true" Star Wars fan, it's proven that you don't really have to be invested in the franchise to do a great job. A lot of people love Harrison Ford as Han Solo, but he didn't really give a damn about Star Wars.

Waller-Bridge continues:

"I got to the audition and thought 'I'm just going to play it like a human' because the chances are it's a human. Because most of the time when you audition, it's for humans. So, I went in as a human and I did the audition. The guys were like 'Oh that's really great, thank you. Could you try it a bit more droid-y?' I was like 'what sort of droid-y vibe do you want?' Luckily one of the directors went like this [made robot arms], and I was like, that's a f*cking robot!!"

If you're a fan of Waller-Bridge, you'll know that she is a fantastic writer and a terrific actress. Though we won't really see her as a person in Solo, I bet she'll still deliver an amazing performance as L3-37. Rian Johnson approves, so I'm all up for it!

Catch Solo: A Star Wars Story in theaters May 25.

See Also: Solo A Star Wars Story: Donald Glover Talks Billy Dee Williams' Reaction to His Lando Calrissian

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