Tudyk: “He thinks of me as dead weight or as his chauffeur because I do fly the spaceship which is pretty cool.”Īhmed, who broke out this year as the star of HBO’s “The Night Of” plays Bodhi, an Imperial cargo pilot living on a planet, Jedha, that’s occupied by the Empire. Riz Ahmed chimed in: “It’s funny, you think of you guys as a team but he doesn’t think of you that way at all. Kind of like a cop team, and I’m the smart-ass cop and he’s the one who’s like ‘Come on K-2!’” said Tudyk.
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That droid is K-2S0, voiced by Tudyk, who is being hailed as one of the breakouts of the film for his deadpan humor. “He has so much information, he has seen terrible things he would love to forget.” His best friend is a droid basically - that says a lot about him - and a droid that he reprogrammed! It’s that kind of character,” Luna said. In the film, he plays Cassian, an intelligence officer for the rebellion, or, a spy charged with leading the dangerous mission that culminates in the rebels stealing the plans for the Death Star. Luna wanted so badly to be in a “Star Wars” film, he said he would have paid to be part of it. Meet a few of the new characters in “Rogue One” before it hits theaters Friday: The great thing about that is when you do that, you can choose any actor you want. We wanted to reflect the different areas of the galaxy and, you know, you obviously have things like talking fish in the rebellion, so it’s like, we should definitely represent the world. “There are different sections of the alliance that are coming together and they can’t agree on much.