So you didn't know each other.
You met on the movie?
Yeah, we met in pre-production, and we
did a bunch of improvs and scenes
together to just test together, basically.
And how did that go?
What were your first impressions of each other?
I mean, I had known--
I knew him from the movie.
I knew him--
Yeah, and I knew Donald from forever.
Yeah, it was great.
Which I didn't know.
Yeah.
Really great.
Yeah.
I was just like--
I don't know, I was just like, I know this guy's good.
I've already seen him work.
I don't know if he thinks I'm going
to be too silly or whatever, because I remember being--
Yeah.
That was a concern.
Yeah.
You just kept saying that.
We were worried.
But--
Yeah.
I had a-- it was a really good time that first improv.
We just-- we started improving scenes together and joking.
Yeah, but then when we shot the movie,
you can't improv the same way in Star Wars,
because you have to-- you know, when you're improving,
you end up mentioning Saved by the Bell and--
Human things.
Human-- world things, and you make references and stuff,
and--
And there's somebody there who knows
everything about Star Wars--
Right.
--off by the side being like, "You can't say banana."
Right.
Exactly.
Banana doesn't exist.
Yeah.
So--
So, you know--
All right.
Yeah, there's no bananas.
Yeah.
Spoiler alert.
That's true.
That-- you can't go off like that.
And now-- did you--
how many times did you audition?
Because this seems like a very secretive movie
for the process.
Yeah.
I auditioned like way less than you,
but I think I auditioned like seven times.
No, I auditioned six times.
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah.
Weren't sure about me.
That's--
Really, six times?
And seven times?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
And was it the same thing, or they
wanted to see something different from you each time?
I don't know.
I don't really know.
You know, you never know.
We did-- I mean mine--
the third one was on the Millennium Falcon,
and it was with Chewbacca, and so
I guess they wanted to see how I could deal with a Wookiee,
you know?
Yep.
And that was-- and I had to learn
Shyriiwook for the audition, which is the Wookiee language.
Right.
Sorry.
Yes.
So yeah, I had to perfect that, and yeah.
It was great.
I heard that when Harrison Ford was on the show,
and I asked him when they were auditioning for someone
to play a young version of him, and his advice
was, "Don't do it."
Right, and I was watching that.
You saw that?
While I was auditioning.
Right.
So that was the moment where I sort of went, oh.
Oops.
You went ahead with it?
Yeah.
So what is the movie about?
Woody Harrelson was here and he just basically read the bio
that the studio sent out.
Right.
He literally took it out of his pocket and read the bio.
So what would you say the movie's about?
I think it's basically you meet Han Solo when he's younger.
You meet him at a different time in his life,
and he's from a hardscrabble background.
He's trying to make a name for himself,
and he has a lot of adventures and meets a lot of people,
and learns about the real world--
or the Star Wars version of the real world.
Yes.
It's just-- yeah, like I think you're getting to see everybody
early on, and it's kind of just like a--
it's a really good summer film, I think.
Yeah.
Are we allowed to say we saw it?
I mean--
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's really good, by the way.
It's great.
Like I'm feeling--
It's really, really, really good.
And I say that as a Star Wars fan.
That was really enjoyable, but it's like a good summer film.
It's a good heist film.
Yeah.
That's basically it.
You kind of see how Han is like--
from the get-go kind of a brash person,
but you see why he's like that.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Sometimes that's all you have.
Yeah.
You know, at the beginning.
And you met-- so you met Harrison?
Yeah, I had lunch with Harrison.
And how was that?
It was awesome.
Yeah.
So everyone kind of prepped me and was
like, he can be grouchy and stuff.
And then he was great.
He is great.
He was really great.
Yeah.
He was really supportive, really nice.
We talked about a lot of stuff and he was very--
like gave us his blessing.
Oh, good.
And then you met Billy Dee Williams.
Yes, I did.
And how was that?
It was really great, because he was exactly what he
should have been for me.
I came in with a lot of ideas of what Lando--
was just like excited, and I was like, I grew up on Lando,
and that was my first toy.
And maybe he's from this other planet where he's--
maybe he's high brow, and his family's rich,
but he's an outcast because he likes to gamble,
and maybe he's from this--
I had all these ideas.
And he literally just let me ramble on for a while,
and then I was like, "So what do you think?"
And he-- and I don't even think he was
looking at me when he said it.
He was like, "I don't know.
Just be charming.
That's enough."
And I was like, all right.
Just like threw all the paper out.
And it was like, oh, what's up.
No, but that's exactly what I needed to hear.
He was like, "Yeah, don't overthink it.
Just be cool."
Yeah.
But that is-- so that was your first toy
when you were growing up?
Yeah.
And now you have action figures.
I mean, come on--
Wow.
How cool is this--
Oh my god.
--that you have your own action figures?
Yeah.
And that was your first toy?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah, I gave it like-- because they sent them to us
and it's super weird for me, because I gave it to my son,
and he's just like--
his mom has always been like, who's that?
And he's just playing.
He's like, "Oh, this is Daddy."
And he's like, "Daddy's riding a horse made of Play-Doh,
and Daddy's like--" I was like, I didn't feel like that before,
so-- but to see him do it, it's kind of like a full circle of--
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's beautiful.
It's weird, but--
Yeah.
But beautiful.
Yeah.
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