Billy Dee Williams would love to play Lando Calrissian in Disney’s upcoming Star Wars sequels. It’s a character Williams has never really said goodbye to, reprising the role in multiple videogames and on television. “Even now,” he says “I do Robot Chicken, I do (Star Wars) Detours. So it’s ongoing.”

Williams first played the character in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back. “Oh, yeah! It’s a major moment of my life.” Episode V is widely considered by fans to be the best film in the series. “Empire was very good,” Williams agrees. “Of course you had Irv Kershner (directing) the film. It became a really wonderful, exceptional experience.”

So is there room in his life, and the Star Wars galaxy, for one more go-round with the “Mayor” of Cloud City? “Well, I’m like everybody else, we’re all speculating and we’re all wondering. If they want me to participate, I’d love to participate.”

“I love the idea of keeping the character alive. And I specifically want to keep him alive, as long as I’m alive.”

Where does Billy Dee Williams imagine Lando ends up? “There are an awful lot of stories out there… Books that have been written on Lando’s adventures. So he’s all over the place. He’s going from galaxy to galaxy.”

And hopefully making another pass through our galactic multiplexes soon.

Billy Dee Williams appears at the Emerald City Comicon March 1^st through 3^rd in the Washington State Convention Center. He’s looking forward to seeing you.

Dan Roberts is the nighttime radio host at 95.7 KJR-FM in Seattle, Washington. He is also a voice-actor with the online animated cartoons Dilbert and Over the Hedge to his credits. Dan  was 11 years old when he saw the Empire Strikes Back in theaters, and thinks talking to Billy Dee Williams was just about the coolest thing in the world.