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Aaron Pierre has star power even when he’s chilling in a hoodie on a hotel bed. I know this for a fact, because that’s exactly what he was doing when he and I chatted on a video call earlier this month. The 31-year-old, London-based actor was in Portugal at the time, doing night shoots for an upcoming project. For most of us, that’d mean sunken eyes and visible exhaustion. For Pierre? Not even a whiff of fatigue. He was engaged, thoughtful, and charming throughout our conversation—even when he was abstaining from giving me even a little bit of dirt about his upcoming Star Wars movie, Starfighter .

“Come on, my brother,” he says with a broad smile. “You know I can't do that. I wish I could, man. I wish I could. I'll tell you what: We're going to speak on the press tour agai

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