Meet Qi’Ra
Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke has been known to be the leading lady of Solo for a while, but as with Harrelson’s Beckett, details on the nature of her character were kept tightly under wraps. As confirmed by a new poster, though, she’s playing Qi’Ra, who it seems is some sort of noble woman who takes a liking to the titular scruffy-looking nerf herder. Sounds sort of familiar, right?
If our guess at the timeline of the movie is correct, we think that Han and Qi’Ra might know each other from the Imperial flight academy, though they later meet again when Beckett recruits them both as part of his crew. They don’t do anything too romantic in the trailers, but it’s clear that the characters have a connection.
“I might be the only person who knows what you really are,” Qi’Ra tells Han, in a moment of privacy between the pair. In typical Han fashion, he shakes off her words, saying: “What’s that?” That’s a good question, Han. One we’re intrigued to find out the answer to.
The Rest Of Beckett’s Crew
Though they don’t do much, we do get a glimpse at the rest of Beckett’s crew in quick succession, which reveals just what the characters played by Thandie Newton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge look like.
First of all, it was recently reported that Newton would be playing someone named Quay Tolsite. We don’t know a ton about her right now, but it’s fair to say that the afro-sporting Quay looks like she’s one tough woman, as she’s seen arming herself with a blaster in her sole appearance in the trailer.
Next, we get a few shots of L3-37, the female droid who will be voiced by Waller-Bridge. By the looks of things, the character will belong to, or at least accompany, Qi’Ra, as the droid is seen following her out of a ship in one clip. There’s also a small chimp-like alien who seems to be part of Beckett’s crew, too. Could he be played by Star Wars stalwart Warwick Davis?