It was officially announced yesterday morning that Walt Disney's Star Wars Episode VI would be adding two new cast members to the already announced participants. They are, to wit, Lupita Nyong'o who just won an Oscar for Twelve Years a Slave and Gwendoline Christie, best known for her work on television's Game of Thrones. They will be added to the 13 already-announced cast members, which includes six older actors from the original trilogy and seven newbies. We now have nine new cast members, and this addition, size and scope of their roles not yet determined, means that we have three females and six males. It's not 50/50 parity, even if women make up 50% of the ticket-buying populace, but it's that much closer. And it still matters, in an era when the conventional cast for major blockbuster films is overwhelmingly male, that the new Star Wars trilogy will potentially buck that trend just a little bit.