Nick Nolte’s role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian has reportedly been revealed – and he’s playing an Ugnaught.

Nolte, nearly 80 years old and a three-time Oscar nominee, is reported to be playing one of the small-statured, pig-faced engineers first seen in The Empire Strikes Back, according to Making Star Wars. Rumors indicate his character won’t be CGI but rather performed via an on-set double and a practical-effect mask.

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Reportedly, a small woman of a more appropriate size for an Ugnaught will be doing all the physical acting on set, while the character’s lines were recorded by Nolte himself. An animatronic mask, said to have been designed by Stan Winston’s team and indicative of the cutting edge technology being used for the production, will be doing all the work of matching the character’s face to Nolte’s dialogue and inflection.

Nolte’s casting was announced late in November, and it appears that he’s already finished his part in The Mandalorian, having recorded all his lines in a single day during a break from another production – supposedly in a makeshift recording studio inside of a linen closet. Whether the Ugnaught character will have a smaller role or is simply of few words is unknown.

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian, created by Jon Favreau and starring Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Omid Abtahi, Werner Herzog and Nick Nolte, is currently filming. The series is expected to premiere on Disney+ sometime in 2019.