For what it is value, Diego Luna’s fascination with touching the pores and skin of Jabba the Hutt sounds precisely like one thing a child would take into consideration watching “Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi” for the primary time. Jabba is likely one of the best puppets ever made — no surprise Luna would need to rub his stomach! 

Luna seemingly needs he by no means stated something about touching Jabba as a result of he is been requested about it always over time. When the actor was on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” in March 2020 selling Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” Fallon tried to get any info out of him concerning the then-upcoming “Rogue One” prequel sequence, “Andor.” Luna expertly prevented that query, solely to have Fallon play a clip of him gushing over Jabba through the “Rogue One” press tour. “It all of the sudden began to really feel like I used to be in love with Jabba. It isn’t, I am sorry!” Luna stated to Fallon. “I’m not in love with Jabba. That was one huge mistake I made.” Luna additionally shared that everybody began sending him numerous Jabba presents — additional proof that he cannot escape his harmless, off-the-cuff remark about Jabba’s squishiness. 

Child Yoda a.ok.a. Grogu was on everybody’s minds when Luna appeared on Fallon, and Luna fell even deeper into the sarlacc pit when the late-night host requested him if Jabba would cameo in “Andor.”  “I hope child Jabba,” Luna quipped. “It is all about infants.” The web was already means forward of him, and Child Jabba the Hutt was born.