I Can't Believe 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' Has Jabba's Son In It

We’ve all been subjected to different levels of what scientists have called “Star Wars Bullshit Nonsense” over the decades. But The Mandalorian and Grogu might be reaching a new level with the live-action debut of Rotta the Hutt, son of crime lord Jabba (RIP, but not really) and voiced by Jeremy Allen White. In a recent Empire interview, White and director Jon Favreau briefly talked up the now-grown Hutt. While White talked up the performance side of things—he “listened to Jabba” to get his voice Hutt appropriate—Favreau compared the character to Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed in that they’re both defined by the respective actions of their late fathers. “When you’re trying to establish yourself and your name is famous, when you’re Jabba the Hutt’s kid, what does that do? How has that affected his trajectory?” That is… incredibly sad when you think about it. Rotta has been MIA since his debut in 2008’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie, where he’s just a walking plot device, and the idea of him now being in a state of arrested development after his father’s death sounds interesting. If Star Wars is going to be about sons and dads, turning that attention onto the son of someone who a