Han Solo hath spoken.
Harrison Ford has assured us the Star Wars: The Force Awakens is phenomenal.
The actor, 71, is never going to slate it, but somehow we believe him when he told Jimmy Kimmel this week that, “J.J. Abrams has made an incredible movie, you will not be disappointed”.
Despite Kimmel’s best efforts to dig for more, the Han Solo star, who dressed up as a hotdog to celebrate Halloween alongside Kimmel as Princess Leia, stayed tight-lipped on spoilers adding, “What is there to say? I want the audience to experience it, I don’t want them to hear anything.”
He also wouldn’t reveal the “very good reason” why Luke Skywalker wasn’t in the trailer.
But he did clear up the myth about how he was injured on set. Despite a police report stating it was from a garage door, Ford said it was “the door of the Millennium Falcon.”
Talk turned to the plane crash he suffered in March, with Kimmel telling the Indiana Jones star something we’re all relieved about; that he’s “happy to see him alive”.
Ford explained: “I remember some of it. I remember the engines stopping…very well. I remember telling the tower what to do and their suggestion, which was to take the normal route to land.
“That’s the last thing I remember until five days afterwards,” he said. While not unconscious, the amount of anaesthesia he was given caused a retrograde amnesia.
Here was Ford talking to Kimmel in 2013 as the rumours of a new Star Wars film surfaced…
