Kristen Wiig Is Joining Masters Of The Universe, And I’m Legitimately Surprised By The Wild Role She’ll Play

The Masters of the Universe reboot is one of the blockbusters slotted for the 2026 movies schedule, and it has quite the stacked cast. Besides Nicholas Galitzine bringing Prince Adam, a.k.a. He-Man, to life in what has been described as the “complete antithesis” of Barbie, we also have folks like Jared Leto as Skeletor, Camila Mendes as Teela, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn and Idris Elba as Man-at-Arms, to name a few. Now we can add Kristen Wiig to this list too, though there was no way I could have predicted the role she’ll be playing.

As shared by THR, Wiig has come aboard Masters of the Universe to play Roboto, the mechanical warrior with the transparent body that allows one to see the gears and other components within. Roboto was built by Man-at-Arms and fights alongside him as one of the franchise’s Heroic Warriors. The character can also change out the hand on one of his/her arms and put in its place things like a claw, axe or laster gun.

Roboto is traditionally voiced by a male actor, so having a female actor voice the character adds another way this new Masters of the Universe movie can stand out from previous adaptations. Roboto has previously been voiced by Alan Oppenheimer in the 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated TV show, Michael Donovan in the 2002 series of the same name, and Justin Long in Masters of the Universe: Revelation, which can be streamed with a Netflix subscription.

Since Masters of the Universe finished filming in June and is deep into postproduction, we’ll only be hearing Wiig’s voicing Roboto, as opposed to her having been on set to perform the character in motion capture. I would never have guessed before today that Kristen Wiig taking part in this science fiction and fantasy-infused tentpole release was a possibility, let alone that she’d be the voice of a transparent robot. Still, Wiig is no stranger to just lending her voice to major motion pictures, with past examples including the original How to Train Your Dragon movies, the Despicable Me movies and Her.

This is also the first action-heavy movie Kristen Wiig is participating in since she played Barbara Minerva, a.k.a. Cheetah, in Wonder Woman 1984. So while we won’t see her fact on screen this time around, I’m looking forward to hearing how the actress does as Roboto’s voice. Directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler, Masters of the Universe hits theaters on June 5, 2026.