Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker’s partnership began in Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie with a curious case. Or rather, a “stinky” one. That was the nickname the young Padawan gave to Jabba the Hutt’s kidnapped baby, Rotta. But that galactic civil war was a long time ago, and in The Mandalorian and Grogu we’re going to see a grownup Rotta voiced by Jeremy Allen White. Grownup, jacked, and ready to fight, that is. A new image from The Mandalorian and Grogu shows Rotta the Hutt as a gladiator with many abs.
Empire magazine’s new look at Din Djarin and his little green buddy’s trip to theaters includes insights into one of the film’s biggest additions. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere/The Bear‘s star, Jeremy Allen White, is joining the galaxy far, far away as a famous member of the infamous Hutt crime family. Allen White is voicing Rotta. The adult Rotta is unlike his famous father, best remembered for lying around all day like an opulent slug. A new image of Rotta the Hutt from The Mandalorian and Grogu shows he’s anything but. We see him holding two oversized bladed in the middle of a fighting pit.
Forget Stinky. More like “Swoll the Hutt.” (No…no, that’s not…we’ll work that out.)
Unlike his dad, we won’t need a translator to understand adult Rotta. Allen White says that while he studied Jabba’s voice, there’s some Huttese in his performance, but Rotta speaks Basic. White reveals, “My speaking voice changes [as Rotta]. It was helpful, of course, to listen to Jabba.”
He also has a big screen counterpart in Creed‘s star, Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis ‘Donnie’ Creed. Writer-director Jon Favreau told Empire that, like Adonis, Rotta is trying prove himself in a world where his dad is very famous. He shares, “When you’re trying to establish yourself and your name is famous, when you’re Jabba The Hutt’s kid, what does that do? How has that affected his trajectory? I get a kick out of that.”
Getting into the gladiator arena and chopping some warriors heads off with your big strong slug arms is definitely one way to do that. And we’ll see why when The Mandalorian and Grogu comes to theaters on May 22, 2026. In the meantime, this new image of Rotta the Hutt has given us much to consider.