Billy Dee Williams has spoken positively earlier than about Lando representing a extra female type of masculinity. It is no shock that he would stoke the rumors of a Han ship in jest, or that he adopted up his podcast feedback with a sultry learn of Lando’s iconic line, “Howdy, what have we right here?” presumably geared toward Han as an alternative of Leia.
Canonically, aside from some unusual wardrobe exchanges (they’re eyebrow-raising, to make sure), there’s sadly no actual proof of a relationship between Han and Lando. Whereas Lando seemingly would have been all the way down to clown, as evidenced by their flirtatiously combative relationship in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” Han’s romantic arcs have solely ever been straight. He is a himbo for positive, however sadly, Lucasfilm has refused to let him be a bear.
However the great thing about fan delivery is which you can have your cake and eat it too. Canon is not the restrict of how folks interact with and luxuriate in a narrative, particularly in a universe as monumental and various as Star Wars. The franchise has been pitifully puritanical within the realm of queer illustration, even within the Disney period. Essentially the most absolutely developed homosexual relationship we have seen in mainline Star Wars might be the messy insurgent foxhole romance between Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) in “Andor.” At instances, Disney’s obvious hesitance to characteristic major queer characters has arguably hindered Star Wars tasks, particularly the sequel trilogy.