Harrison Ford Offered Advice Before Solo: A Star Wars Story Production

Harrison Ford gave a helping hand to Alden Ehrenreich during filming of Solo: A Star Wars Story. EW reports that Ford spoke with Ehrenreich before filming started. Ehrenreich told the site that Ford told him during a lunch in January, “Tell them I told you everything you needed to know, and that you can’t tell anyone,” noting, “I gotta stick to my orders from the man himself.”

Ford, of course, originated the role of the iconic smuggler in the original films.

“What [Ford] did so beautifully for Alden was he talked a lot about what he remembered when he first read ‘Star Wars,’ and what George had done with Han. Who the character was and the conversations he had for so many years with George about how that character developed,” Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said. “He gave Alden that kind of insight which was invaluable. There were several times in the course of making the movie where Alden would actually recount some of the things that Harrison had pointed out. I think that was really, really helpful to him.”