Alden Ehrenreich speaks to Interview magazine about his burgeoning career and touches briefly on the topic of his role as Han Solo in the 2018 second Star Wars Story entry
MARTIN: You’re in London right now. What are you over there to do?
EHRENREICH: Prep stuff for Star Wars.
MARTIN: Is that going to be shot entirely over there?
EHRENREICH: I actually don’t know. They shoot the Star Wars films in England. But I think they also shoot them in other places. I’m not sure exactly where the locations will be.
MARTIN: What kind of prep have you been doing?
EHRENREICH: Well, I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.
MARTIN: Was that another surreal moment?
EHRENREICH: Yeah, for sure. I think so many of the experiences that I’ve been lucky to have so far have been exactly that. It’s been so surreal that at a certain point you stop expecting them to feel real at all. Going back to Tetro, I remember thinking, “Oh, at some point this will end up feeling second nature,” and it never really does. It’s always a little fantastical.
MARTIN: Have directors told you what your special quality is, why they cast you?
EHRENREICH: No. I avoid any conversation like that. The more ignorant I am about anything that pertains to that, the better. I just don’t think that there’s any way that could be helpful to the work that I do. Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn’t feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
