EW chat with the new Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich as he embarks on his first journey as the young would-be smuggler in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
How would you characterize the journey this character is on?
I think it tells the story of a young man pursuing a dream to get out of his pretty rough upbringing, and a lot of the story is him trying to make this dream come true and finding out that it’s a lot harder than he had imagined.
He seems like someone who didn’t have a lot of people who cared about him at a
young age. So he goes through life with shields up.Â
Yeah, that’s all basically right. One of the fun things about this movie but also one of the things that really shapes him is that it takes place in a real dark underworld of the Star Wars universe.Basically, gangland, right?
Yes, and other planets and environments as well that are tough in different ways.
