Playing Han Solo is ‘just another day in the office’ for Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is not as excited about reprising his famous Star Wars role as the audience is
Filming on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens set was “just another day in the office”, Harrison Ford has told the Radio Times.
The 73-year-old star played cocky but lovable smuggler Han Solo in the original Star Wars films, who initially irritated but later won the heart of Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia.
Also famous for playing Indianna Jones at around the same time, Ford earned himself millions of fans playing the captain of the Millennium Falcon. The character proved so popular, in fact, that there is now a spin-off film in the works, for which 2,500 actors have auditioned, hoping to play a younger version of Solo.
But Ford himself is less excited about the part. "I'm not nostalgic,” he told the Radio Times. “I'm doing the best job I can during the day and then going home. And, you know, it was nice to have the chance to work with people I knew... and some new people that I didn't... But it's just another day in the office in many ways."
But his relationship with co-star Peter Mayhew, who played Solo’s Wookiee companion Chewbacca in the films, was spoken of with somewhat more fondness. Ford said that reuniting with the actor after 32 years was “warm and fuzzy”. Of Solo and Chewie he said: "They were very much like an old married couple to start with. I think people will find them very much the same as ever."
Ford was in the news recently for his dispassionate views on Solo when he spoke to American talk show host Jimmy Fallon. Describing how he himself had got “chills in certain areas” when he saw Han Solo appear in the Episode VII trailers, he asked Ford if he felt the same. “I got paid,” responded.
