When George Lucas sold the rights to Star Wars to Disney, fans had one question: Who would play Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta? Hollywood was waiting for the right guy, Jeremy Allen White from the Emmy-winning star of The Bear. Who else could play a character as iconic as Rotta?

Jeremy Allen White has landed an unexpected new role playing Jabba the Hutt's son in upcoming Star Wars film The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Jeremy Allen White has reportedly been cast in The Mandalorian & Grogu, and one artist has drawn a hilarious rendition of what that might look like.

The casting news, reported by The Insneider and confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, apparently has White voicing Rota the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt, the portly crime boss first seen in “ Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ” (1983).

“Yes, chef?” More like “Yes” to the director of Chef. That’s what The Bear star Jeremy Allen White apparently said recently as he has joined the cast of the next Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu. It’s co-written and directed by Jon Favreau who directed the film Chef.

Emmy Award-winning star of The Bear, Jeremy Allen White, has joined the cast of The Mandalorian and Grogu movie as the son of Jabba the Hutt,

Jeremy Allen White has joined “Star Wars” film “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” playing the voice of Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, Variety has confirmed. The project marks the first major franchise for the actor following his Emmy-winning breakout role on the FX series “The Bear.

Last year, Jeremy Allen White told a story about how he washed out of a Marvel audition because he had a bad attitude, which was fine by him because he couldn’t understand why actors would star in them anyway. He told British GQ that he’d rather make a “$25 million drama that I think most actors want to make.”

Filming of “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” about the making of the Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska,” hit the Asbury Park waterfront on Tuesday, Dec. 10.