‘Star Wars Outlaws’ Video Game Star Humberly González on Being the First Latina Lead in Franchise History and Hopes for a TV Adaptation
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Ubisoft and Lucasfilm’s open-world video game “Star Wars Outlaws” launched Friday, giving fans of the galaxy far, far away a chance to play as a new character, Kay Vess (voiced by “Tarot” and “Star Trek: Section 31” star Humberly González) in a story set in between the events of the original film trilogy’s “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” This new lead isn’t a Jedi or Sith, a rebel or an Imperial sympathizer — she’s a scoundrel trying to survive the crime-ridden “Star Wars” universe with little to no knowledge of the crime syndicates that rule and no one but a little sidekick companion named Nix to help her out. “It is such a fun timeline, and I know this from the creative team — Nikki Foy, the lead script writer, and Navid Khavari, who is our narrative director, when this opportunity came to them and they found out the timeline that they were going to be playing in was in the original trilogy between ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ and ‘Return of the Jedi,’ I think everybody was in shock,” González told Variety. “And they always say, ‘We got out of there before they changed their mind,’ because this is a dream timeline.
It is a time where the crime syndicates are thriving. The underbelly of ‘Star Wars’ is rampant. So insert this new scoundrel story where she’s a young girl that isn’t a Jedi.
She’s not a Sith. She doesn’t want to belong to anybody, not the rebels, not the Empire. She simply has a dream of getting rich and being free out there in the galaxy.
She doesn’t know what that means, but we get to explore with her through her rookie ways of becoming this incredible scoundrel, but not having the experience like the ones we’ve seen portrayed in ‘Star Wars’ before, like.
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