Fellow actors and genuine pals Ming-Na Wen and Yvette Nicole Brown recently appeared on the D23 Inside Disney podcast, where Wen suggested that Brown be brought into the live-action Star Wars universe.
Both Wen and Brown are Disney darlings: the two appeared in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, and both are now in the Star Wars universe in one way or another. Wen portrays the stoic badass Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, while Brown voices the tenacious Lieutenant Colvett Valeria in the second season of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.
On the D23 podcast, Wen, Brown, and the rest of the group (including Heidi Blickenstaff, Ashley Eckstein, Jason George, and Bret Iwan) chat triumphantly about cleaning the floor with a few colleagues at trivia night — until Wen can’t contain her love for Brown any longer and says, “We need to work on something together.” Brown hilariously responds, “Listen, I would love to. But everything you do is action, and mother is sedentary. So it’s hard.”
Brown then latches onto a suggestion that she could play a live-action version of Lt. Valeria, which she says would match up with the timeline of The Mandalorian. “I would love that,” Wen says, before the group at large begins discussing a potential “buddy-cop” pairing of the two characters. Wen puts on her improv hat by saying “yes, and” to pretty much every suggestion that comes up. “It sells itself,” Brown observes.
Until Disney gives this “Lethal Weapon in space” idea a green light, it sounds like we’ll at least be seeing more of Fennec Shand in upcoming Star Wars projects. Brown lets slip that she “can’t wait to watch Ming-Na kick butt” on her upcoming Star Wars shows. Considering that we weren’t sure we’d ever see Fennec again after The Book of Boba Fett, we’re hoping this means she’ll pop up in an upcoming Disney Plus series, such as The Mandalorian Season 4 or wherever Bob Fett is going next.
And Brown shouldn’t give up hope for sliding into a spectacle-driven, live-action narrative; she did just fine in Avengers: Endgame.