Are you a young white male actor?
The same source also claims there are still more Han Solo auditions to consider.
Do we want this?
Do we know what we want?
Audiences around the world are currently thrilling to the latest adventure from Harrison Ford as Old Han Solo.
The seventhStar Warsfilm is structured, in part, as an extended sendoff for the beloved character.
(If this were 2011, Andrew Garfield would be on the shortlist.)
So, fine: A young Han Solo.
It has to happen.
What do we want him to look like?
What do we want him tobe?
What does that look like, as a young twentysomething?
Ford gave Solo some real rough charm.
This new Han Solo won’t have any of those luxuries.
Barring that, the actor I think would make the most convincing young Han Solo isn’t onVarietys shortlist.
In theMaze Runnermovies, he’s the noble protagonist; onTeen Wolf, he’s the snarky comic relief.
This strikes me as a uniquely accurate Han Solo mixture.
(Anecdotally,he’s fun to drink beer with.)
But you could argue that Ansel Elgort has the clear upper hand, too.
InFault in Our Stars, Elgort has one of the all-time plum roles for a young actor.
As Augustus Waters, he’s coded as a “bad boy” (cigarette!
but he’s also a nice-guy romantic (he never lights the cigarette!)
and he somehow makes the key character trait ofdying of cancerinto a charmingly roguish affectation.
Everyone knows Han Solo.
It turns out, though, that nobody knows Young Han Solo.
We’ll be meeting him, soon.
