Donald Glover Talks About the First Time He Played Lando Calrissian Glover, who plays the infamous space smuggler in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’, recently discussed putting on Lando’s cape for the first time. It was really great. The cape was the best part because you're waiting for the cape the entire time. It was a really great feeling. And it looked so different but also the same as Lando always was. Glover had previously told Jimmy Kimmel that he had always dreamed of playing Lando Calrissian, even telling his agent before the film was cast that he wanted the role. If they're making a Han Solo movie, Lando's got to be in it, and I want to be Lando.