Harrison Ford Interview

Entertainment Weekly released a interview with Harrison Ford today along with the two new images above of our favorite smuggler. Below is an excerpt from the interview, read the full report here.

Part of Ford’s playfulness is pretending he’s not playing along. After all, Han Solo just fronts at being cold-hearted. Deep down, he’s a softie. (Even though both the actor and character would hate being called that.)

When Oscar Isaac, who co-stars as hotshot X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, tried to tap Ford’s pilot experience for insight into the character, Ford broke the news to him rather harshly that (spoiler alert) Star Wars is fake.

“I said, ‘Just make s–t up!’” Ford says, getting suddenly animated. “I mean, it’s a movie, man. It’s space. You don’t fly in space the way you do in an atmosphere.” But then, he recalls having the same questions back when he first entered the Star Wars universe four decades ago.

“I don’t know any more than George [Lucas] knew how to fly the Millennium Falcon when I first got in. ‘How do you fly this, George?’” Ford says, breaking into a nasally, mumbling impersonation of the Star Wars creator. “‘Well, I don’t know, you just flip switches, and, errrr…’” Ford rolls his eyes and pretends to randomly spin invisible dials on the tabletop. “’Ooookay!’”

Tormenting Lucas about Star Wars has been Ford’s pastime ever since the first film, where he famously pointed out the difficulty of the filmmaker’s galactic jargon. Ford laughs when reminded of this quote: “You can type this s–t, George, but you can’t say it.”

“Well, you try and say, ‘It takes a few minutes for the navicomputer to calculate the coordinates,’” Ford says, rattling off the line with ease that contradicts his complaint a little. “Move your mouth, George, while you’re typing! It’ll help!”

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