In an articled featured on The Hollywood Reporter, Woody Harrelson covers a wide gamut of topics ranging from dealing with personal issues to working in the film business. As expected, the article touches briefly on the subject of 2018’s young Han Solo film in which he portrays a character named Beckett (this spelling is assumed).
Harrelson stated in an earlier interview with Uproxx that he felt the transition to Ron Howard as the new director of the film would go off without a hitch.
The paragraphs copied below from the piece highlight Harrelson’s comments on how secret things are when working on a Star Wars film, spending some time with former directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord, and how he was informed of the director change to Ron Howard.
Definitely [Star Wars] has more secrecy than anything ever. You get an e-reader; you don’t get a script. They give it to you, and you give it back after you read it. But I was like, “I’ve got to be with my family, I got to go home.” I’d been home in Maui one week since November. But I met with [directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller] one night, and we hung out and we went over to Matthew Freud’s and played pingpong and just had a great time. They were really good guys. I’ve been enjoying it [since then], especially because we just went to [shoot at] the Dolomites in Italy. [Co-star] Thandie Newton said, “It’s like being at camp ’cause you got everybody together,” and we had a couple of epic parties.
Alli gave me the word on [Ron Howard replacing the directors]. He’s a wonderful guy. And we did shoot one day with him — we had to shoot because Thandie had to leave. We start again July 12. I think I read some stuff where people were worried about the fate of this movie. I wouldn’t worry. The Force is still very much with it.
