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Diego Luna

OR DIEGO LUNA, THE SHEER IDEA OF BEING IN THE FRANCHISE was foreign. “I didn’t even think about it. I was okay being a fan.” Now he’s starring in (September 21, Disney+), reprising his character Cassian from the 2016 movie Set five Ultimately, Luna believes that even though “happens in a galaxy far, far away,” the show’s “diversity and complexity” is the perfect evolution of storytelling and “reflects the world we live in” today. “We have the responsibility of being different, and that’s what is there for.”

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