Jonathan Kasdan, a writer on Solo: A Star Wars Story, said: “There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s sexuality. It was previously confirmed that Lando Calrissian – a role made famous by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back and more recently portrayed by Donald Glover – identifies as pansexual, although it’s never been explored on screen. If someone would finally ask me, I would say, ‘All I can say is that when Flix says I love you, Orka says I know’. It was nominated for the Outstanding Children’s Program award at this year’s Emmys.įans had already speculated that Orka and Flix were a couple based on a previous scene which saw the characters both visit Flix’s mother together and bring her flowers as a gift.īobby, the voice of Orka, said on Coffee With Kenobi: “I have had a sentence prepared for a year and a half. Star Wars Resistance is a cel-shaded animated series set six months before The Force Awakens.

“They’re absolutely a gay couple and we’re proud of that.” “I think it’s safe to say they’re an item,” executive producer Justin Ridge said during an appearance on Star Wars podcast Coffee With Kenobi. The producers of animated series Star Wars Resistance, which is returning for a second season on 6 October, have confirmed that Orka and Flix – voiced by Bobby Moynihan and Jim Rash – are a same-sex couple. Star Wars now has its first openly gay couple.