Not only did they have the Hail Caesar! star read for the part, but they also had him audition for the role by sitting in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon with his trusty Wookie companion, Chewbacca, right next to him.
That’s about as authentic as an audition for a Star Wars movie will ever get, and one could imagine it being crazy intimidating.
As if auditioning for the part of Han Solo against a sea of talented actors wasn’t intimidating enough, Alden Ehrenreich recently also revealed the lengths that Phil Lord and Chris Miller went to in order to ensure that he could properly fill out the role.