8 More Background Actors In Star Wars Who Got Themselves Noticed

Cameos are nothing new in the galaxy far, far away. Even before the Disney era opened the celebrity floodgates, George Lucas himself found a way to wander into the prequels.

But there's no arguing that the sequel trilogy in particular dialled the cameos up to eleven, with each and every one of those films boasting a number of famous faces and voices if you were looking/listening hard enough.

In some cases, though, it wasn't all that hard to catch a famous face sharing the screen with a Star Wars icon.

Take the celebrations seen at the end of Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker on Ajan Kloss. The Resistance are shown cheering and embracing in the wake of taking down the Emperor and his Sith army on Exegol. And in a moment that is guaranteed to snap just about any musical theatre lover right out of the uplifting ending to a rather divisive final Skywalker Saga chapter, none other than Lin-Manuel Miranda is then randomly seen playing a Resistance pilot.

The mind behind the smash hit Hamilton musical hugs a fellow ship flyer as Chewbacca and Rose Tico simultaneously embrace one another.

Now sure, this one was revealed beforehand, with Miranda popping up in a "Special Look" teaser for the movie before it released. But it's likely most people had forgotten about that incoming cameo after spending two hours locked into this routinely baffling and uninspired conclusion.

Still, when the moment arrived, he made his seconds as an extra count. And did not throw away his shot at being noticed in a Star Wars movie.