Kathleen Kennedy says Star Wars has learned it “cast” recast classic characters with new actors.
Placing the blame on the movie’s failure on the idea of attempting to recast a character as iconic as Han Solo with a young actor — with poor Alden Ehrenreich trying to sub in for Harrison Ford — Kennedy said “there should be moments along the way when you learn things. Now it does seem so abundantly clear that we can’t do that.” That meaning recasting legacy characters.How long that dictum lasts remains to be seen, but it’s an interesting comment for a few reasons.
Yes, Lucasfilm brought back Mark Hamill instead of hiring a lookalike when they wanted to feature Luke Skywalker on with Ewan McGregor, who was essentially the Alden Ehrenreich of his day when he replaced Alec Guinness as the young Obi-Wan in the Of course, people loved McGregor in the role from early on and Ehrenreich’s Han Solo was much less warmly received.
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