Solo: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan confirms that Lando Calrissian is definitely not straight… at least off-screen.

Kasdan, who co-wrote Solo with his father Lawrence Kasdan (screenwriter of such indie hits as The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens), recently spoke to HuffPost about the new Star Wars film. When asked directly about Lando’s freewheeling sexuality in Solo, the younger Kasdan responded strongly.

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“I would say yes,” he affirmed. “There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” Kasdan says. “I love the fluidity — sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of… He doesn’t make any hard and fast rules. I think it’s fun.”

Yes, at least according to Jonathan Kasdan, Lando is pansexual, and into droids. His metal partner in Solo, a droid named L3, apparently reciprocates in his flirtatiousness… though the elder Lawrence Kasdan was a bit more reserved on the subject.

“That is her personality,” he says of L3. “Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn’t.”

But either way, it seems official: Lando Calrissian is not straight. Thus does the legendary slippery smuggler now joins the considerable ranks of LGBTQ characters whose sexuality is heard, but not seen. While that isn’t nothing (certainly, some recognition is better than none at all), it’s become a distinct trend in modern pop culture, and makes for a want of true representation.

Jonathan Kasdan seems aware of the problem, at least.

“I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie,” he tells HuffPost. “I think it’s time, certainly, for that.”

Star Wars has provided some genuine queer representation in their novels, which are all considered part of the official canon. But only time will tell if this needed representation will make the leap from page and word-of-mouth to on-screen reality.

Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters on May 25.