- If we talk to the Alden nine years ago and said,
"By the way, at some point, you're gonna be playing
"Han Solo." - Right.
- What do you think he would make of that news?
- I think he would've been pretty amped about it.
I think he probably would've been pretty excited about it.
I waited a long time for a shot like this.
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- At this point, when we're careening towards the release,
when the public actually finally gets a chance
to see this film, is it an exhale of relief at this point
'cause you've debuted the film in Caan and other premieres?
Press have seen it, people like it.
This is a huge sense of relief.
- Absolutely, I think, yeah, it is a big sense of relief.
I've been on it for about two years.
I auditioned for it in 2015.
I mean, I've kind of been on it for even longer
so just the fact that people like it,
and it's like the enthusiasm that we've had
and just kind of finally getting to release the movie
to people is such a wonderful feeling
and getting people to enjoy it and have that adventure.
- When you were first up for this in the screen test period,
I mean, it's the opportunity in some ways of a lifetime,
but it's also one of these opportunities that--
It's, needless to say, a tough act to follow.
- Uh huh. - Did anybody
in your life say, "This is a bad idea?"
Like, this is a no win scenario, don't go down this road.
- No one said that, no one brought that up,
but I wanted to know--
It was really important to me, like I think there's
a big difference between finding yourself in something
and knowing all along that you chose it.
So I was auditioning for it, and I was kind of like,
I really like this so far.
I'm very excited about this, but I need to make sure
that I'm doing this really because I want to.
Because if you said, "I'm actually not gonna do it,"
everyone would think you're crazy.
Your agents would just basically quit,
and you'd need to know-- - We got you Han Solo,
what more do you want? - Right, exactly.
So I went on this trip during the audition process
and just like spent a lot of time
and really made sure that I--
I basically wanted to make sure
that there wasn't some voice in me that went like,
"Don't do this." - Right.
- And there wasn't because if there was that voice,
then I would've had to deal with it and not done it.
But there wasn't, and I really did wanna do it.
I loved the people I was working.
I loved the take on the character.
The only person who said don't do it was
when they interviewed Harrison Ford, and they said,
"Do you have advice for whoever takes on this role,"
and that's what he said.
- Right. - But there's
an old showbiz thing that the best thing
to tell somebody who asks,
"How do you get into show business," is "Don't,"
because the people who will accept that
aren't the people you want in it.
Like the people who are gonna hear that
and fight and go anyway are the people you want in.
- So let's talk about sort of this approach to this
because you have this amazing script from Lawrence Kasdan
and John Kasdan to work off of.
You also have this body of work
that Harrison Ford created in these original films.
At a certain point, were you kind of like,
"I need to stop watching the original trilogy
"and just sort of work off of this material
"and not let it get too in my head?"
I mean, the sense of the balance
between imitation and making it your own.
- So I didn't look at any of it while I was auditioning.
I think maybe I watched A New Hope
after like my third screen test or something.
And I got the part like months out
from when we actually filmed it.
So yeah, I basically absorbed everything I could
from the original movies.
I watched episode one through Force Awakens,
which was what was out at the time.
Learned about the Star War universe
and just kinda like absorbed everything I could
of Harrison, of Han Solo, of the whole world
so that by the time you're getting even remotely close
to filming, you put all that aside.
And also, it's a very different guy in this movie.
You're meeting him at a very different time in his life.
He has a lot of qualities we don't associate with Han Solo.
Like he's a dreamer, he's kind of idealistic,
and these aren't things--
So that's kind of the great craftsmanship of the Kasdans
is that they created the longest possible arc
for the character, and it means
that he starts in a very not-that-Han-Solo-y kind of vibe.
So your job becomes being true to this guy
where he's at now and making those scenes feel real
and alive, as real as you can.
- That being said, is there like one particular mannerism
that you felt like was important to bring along to this?
- There's a lot, I mean, there's a host of them.
I don't wanna name them 'cause I don't want that
to be the experience of watching them.
- Well, the drinking game watching.
- That's right, every time I point.
(laughing)
- Do you have a favorite line
from original trilogy Han Solo?
Part of me loves like when he kind of wrestle
with the craziest Lucas dialogue.
Like, "You look strong enough
"to pull the years off of a Gundark."
- Right. - He somehow makes it work.
- Right, yeah, yeah.
- Any particular ones that strike your fancy?
- I think that my two favorite ones are not verbal.
I mean, my two favorite ones are basically,
"Aah," and "Woo hoo."
So it's when he's pinned up against the wall
in the Death Star, and they're corned
and he just starts running at the--
- Oh, totally. - At the--
- [Both] Storm troopers.
- And he gets surprised. - Just starts screaming.
I remember that thrill, I remember how exciting
that was as a kid to see that.
- We talked about meeting Harrison.
Ron Howard comes on board.
George Lucas immediately comes to the set.
- Comes to visit the first day.
- Amazing. - First day, incredible.
- Give me a sense of what the interaction was.
Was that, again, just sort of,
"Tell me what you want, oh master," or, just, I mean--
- I mean, he came in and talked to us very briefly.
We were really shooting, I mean, we were shooting a scene.
It wasn't like a lunch in the middle of the day.
It was him actually visiting
and watching while we're shooting.
It was also the first day of shooting after the hiatus.
And then, I got to sit down with him a couple weeks ago
at Skywalker Ranch and just talk to him
about the character and about Star Wars in general.
And of course, we all know this, but he was,
his just sort of ideas, he's doing this museum
that sounds so cool.
And his just ideas about the function of storytelling.
I mean, I would bastardize what he said,
but he's really brilliant.
And I think we all owe him a real debt of gratitude.
We are working in this sandbox that he built
and in such a brilliant way and with this kind of depth.
He made this up, he made all of it up,
and we continue to do all this from him.
- Some hot button questions that I think
only the guy that plays Han Solo could answer.
- Sure. - Okay.
Give me a sense of this, Han or Han, what is the--
- Han, well, George says Han.
Lando obviously says Han, Leia says Han and Han,
but Harrison Ford says Han.
- [Josh] And that's what you go by?
- If I'm, you know-- - You have to go--
- It's not like in the first half of my life,
I said Alden and now I say Alden.
So you kind of have to, you stick with that.
Same is true of Falcon. - Okay.
Did Han or Han Solo--
- [Both] Shoot first?
- [Alden] Yes.
- Without a doubt. - Yeah, without a doubt.
- [Josh] It's just who he is, it's what he would do.
- For sure, well, he knows, you know, he knows
that it's not gonna go well.
It's not like he did just to be cold.
- [Josh] He's not an asshole, he was just--
- He knows that, at that time in his life,
he knows the ends and outs of this world.
And you know one thing that's cool about this movie
is like that Cantina scene was always my favorite part
of the Star Wars universe, and this movie
is really an extrapolation on that.
So it's kind of this great adventure story
that takes in the underworld,
the kind of gangsta world of the Star Wars universe
and is very, very, has that kind of edge to it.
And it's not, you know all the movies are kind
of light versus dark, and this kind of moral,
very clear moral boundaries.
Whereas, this is kind of who is a good guy?
Who is a bad guy, who can you trust?
Which I think distinguishes it and makes it a lot of fun.
- Totally.
Han, scoundrel or heart of gold at the heart of it?
- I think both, I think one thing
that's fun about the character
is that there's so many things.
We all sort of think of him as this swashbuckling,
swagger-y cowboy, and yet you look at this scenes with Leia,
and he's pretty, he's pretty insecure.
- Right. - So there's a lot
of dimension, I think that's what makes it.
He's the most human in a way.
- What does the inside of a Tauntaun smell like?
- I don't know, I have no idea, but not good.
(laughing)
- By all accounts. - I would imagine--
Chewy, incidentally, smells great
because they wash those suits in shampoo and conditioner.
The yak hair suits so he actually smells really good.
- Oh, that's beautiful. - Yeah, yeah.
- [Josh] Who is cooler at the end of the day, Han or Lando?
- It depends on what part of the moment you're looking at.
- Okay. - So in this movie,
Han's still cutting his teeth in a way.
- [Josh] Right, so right now,
Lando has a bit of an advantage, but--
- Yeah, probably, but then some stuff happens
over the course of this film that I think might change that.
And then also, later on, like in Empire,
Lando's like not the most reliable.
Lando does some pretty uncool stuff.
- Right. - So, you know, yeah.
- What about Donald or Alden, who's cooler?
- Donald, yeah.
(laughing)
Yeah, yeah.
- There's a lot talk about sort
of what the next anthology story, right,
A Star Wars Story could or should be,
whether it's Obi-Wan or Lando or Boba Fett, et cetera.
As a fan, is there one that you would be curious to see?
- I really like this one.
I mean, honestly, because I think this one
is the most germane and organic
because there's so many things
that are mentioned in the original movies.
There's such an actual backstory to fill in.
There's so many between his relationship with Lando
or the ship or other things, Chewy, you know.
So there's, to me, it lends itself most organically to this.
Whereas I think you would have to sort of kind of create,
have to be drawing on, you'd have
to be making up more with the other ones.
- Okay, just a quick follow-up on the Lando relationship
because that's something people were intrigued,
and it really pays off, I think,
and to sort of see the genesis
of this complicated relationship
between your two characters.
Did you spend much time with Donald prior to this?
Can you talk sort of about what you guys
were keen on establishing and the report, the rivalry,
the friendship, what you're trying to convey in this one?
- I think all those notes kind of came pretty naturally.
Like we read for the movie, I had the part,
and we did a bunch of screen tests together.
And we had such a kind of immediate report.
I mean, I was just with him,
and it's just so much fun with him.
He's really has a lot of fascinating ideas
that are interesting for me to--
Like I like to ask him about it, and he's just like--
We just kind of get along.
We just really do get along and so doing those scenes
with him was pretty effortless and pretty fun.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- One crazy aspect that happens at the end of the film
that caught me by surprise
is Darth Maul makes an appearance.
- [Alden] Yes.
- So we were talking before about prequels,
were you surprised about that aspect?
I mean, one of the cool things that I think about
that for the fans is it kind of embraces
the expanded universe for the first time
in a real, concrete way.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Were you surprised when you saw
or heard of that aspect and--
- Definitely, yeah, and in the script,
it didn't say who that was so nobody knew
until way late in the game.
But I think it's really cool because among the things
that were established in the prequels,
he's one of the coolest things.
I remember as a kid, he's a great villain, and so,
bringing him back into this world and then of course,
like the empire and these crime syndicates
are in bed with each other.
So of course, they are, so it's kind of--
And as much as...
Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn in this movie
are like its own sort of invention,
I don't think they appear in anything else,
there is like an established thing
in the expanded universe with Black Sun, I think it is,
and these five crime syndicates like the mafia.
So it does, in a way, tips its hat to that.
There is, like in a way, it feeds into it.
- You're gonna get, hopefully,
some much needed rest now that the tour--
You've traveled the world on this one.
- That's right, yes. - It's a Star Wars movie.
You don't do it small. - No, that's right.
- How do you kind of navigate a career post-Han Solo?
- Honestly, like one thing I'm really grateful for
and lucky is the fact that I started when I was 14.
So I've had like 15 years almost of working,
and there isn't some new approach.
Like the thing that I've looked to
since my first film with Coppola
was like who's the director?
That's, to me, everything, and a great part.
And so, there is no trying to sustain any kind of new level
of recognition or any kind of thing like that.
It's just what's the next movie
that a director I really love is doing.
So there's the perception of where somebody's career is at,
or how big the movie they're in is or whatever,
but the people within those narratives
are living lives four months out of the year.
That's why, to me, I always think
of doing some cheesy movie I don't wanna do.
That's four or five months
out of your life every single day,
and it seems pretty draining.
So no matter what happens, whether the movie's successful
or if it works or if it whatever, if you choose people
that are inspiring to you, you spend four months
with those inspiring people every day
and that's so much more enriching
than a high score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Right.
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