Blade Runner 2049: Edward James Olmos to Return as Gaff
“It’s a shame she won’t live, but then again – who does?” It’s about as perfect a final line an actor could hope to utter but it now seems it won’t be the last we’ll hear from Edward James Olmos’ Gaff – the last character to see Harrison Ford’s Deckard before he fled with Sean Young’s Rachael at the end of Blade Runner.
Olmos has confirmed that like Harrison Ford, he’ll also be returning to the smog-laden streets of future Los Angeles in Blade Runner 2049. During an interview with TheTRENDTalk, the actor confirmed that he is in the upcoming sequel and explained why he insisted for months that he wasn’t in the film. Here’s what he said during the course of the interview:
“I signed a seven page non-disclosure contract. I did, my manager did, my agent did, everybody did. I couldn’t talk about it. I couldn’t talk about it to anybody about it. Guess what? This is the first time that I’m telling the whole world, that yes, I am going to be Gaff in Blade Runner 2049.”
And like his role in the original, Olmos said that he’ll play a small but significant moment in Blade Runner 2049: “Well, it’s not about Gaff, but it’s about someone who is going to try to find out certain things about us back then. My role is like it was in the original – that time I only had four scenes, in this I only have one. But again, it’s a poignant little scene.”
Bringing back the one character who seemed to know exactly who or what Deckard truly was, and seemed to a have, if not a sympathetic ear, but certainly an understanding one – there’s also the heavy sense of mystery he brought to the role too, something we’re hoping Blade Runner 2049 will retain.
Blade Runner 2049 is released on October 6th, 2017.
