Humberly Gonzalez, the actor for Kay Vess, talked about her involvement in the creation of this scoundrel protagonist in the upcoming Star Wars Outlaw. Set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, this Star Wars story puts the spotlight on Kay Vess, an up-and-coming scoundrel ready to take the planets by storm with her creature companion Nix helping her along the way. While players may compare Kay to other well-known smugglers of the galaxy such as Han Solo, Gonzalez spoke about her hopes of making Kay’s story something more unique in comparison to what Star Wars fans have already seen on the big screen.
“You’ve seen scoundrel stories in this galaxy before like Han Solo, Lando, but we haven’t seen a story of a normal girl, who has a dream where she just wants to be free. There’s a lot of themes of freedom, and she has this resilience and fearlessness, but she’s also a rookie so she makes a lot of mistakes.” Everyone in the room listening to Gonzalez speak could see the light in her eyes when talking about what Kay meant to her as a character.
The care and thought that this Venezuelan actor put into performing was evident as she explained the less-confident side of this character. “[Y]ou get to see this chip on her shoulder, this vulnerable side to her that we don’t see a lot in these very confident scoundrels we’ve already captured in Star Wars. So I really wanted to make her that complex, that you can be.
..yes, fearless, but also shake in y.