Actor Billy Dee Williams to receive legacy award
NEW YORK : Billy Dee Williams will receive the Hollywood Legacy Award at the American Black Film Festival Honours ceremony early next year.
The ABFF says the award goes every year to an artist who has “inspired generations and made an enduring contribution to film and television.” Williams is known for his roles as Lando Calrissian in the second and third films of the original Star Wars trilogy and as District Attorney Harvey Dent in the 1989 film Batman. Williams also starred on the small screen in Dynasty and in the ABC miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream.
Also to be honored at the Beverly Hills ceremony on February 25 is actor Omari Hardwick, who will receive the Distinguished ABFF Alumni Award. RIDLEY MAY NOT RETURN TO STAR WARS AFTER EPISODE IX Actor Daisy Ridley, who joined the Star Wars franchise with the JJ Abbramsdirected Force Awaken, has said that she does not plan to star in the popular series beyond the three films.
The 25-year-old actor will reprise her character, Rey, in The Last Jedi, which also stars Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie and Domhnall Gleeson. LOS ANGELES: Carrie Fisher’s final performance as the beloved Leia in Star Wars puts the character on the front lines in a dark new chapter that reaches theaters this month, leaving a galactic hole to fill after the sudden death of the actress a year ago.
Fisher had filmed all of her scenes for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the eighth installment of the blockbuster space saga, before she died of a heart attack in December 2016.“She’s irreplaceable,” Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker, told Reuters. Star Wars is about great triumphs and great tragedies,” Hamill said.
Writer and director Rian Johnson said he did not change Leia’s story in Last Jedi after her death. The film debuts in theaters December 14.