Star Wars’ New Han Solo Breaks Silence On Replacing Harrison Ford

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Star Wars has found its new Han Solo, and the actor stepping into Harrison Ford’s orbit finally broke his silence. Ford played the smuggler across multiple films, beginning with the 1977 original, and his depiction became so iconic that he remains one of the most beloved movie stars to emerge from the franchise. Naturally, filling shoes that big is daunting, let alone when the role is Han Solo.Welsh actor Matthew Rhys will voice the character in Star Wars: Gobaith Newydd, the first-ever Welsh-language dub of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope. Rhys shared his thoughts about the assignment in a conversation with The New York Times podcast(Via BBC) The Interview, calling the recording experience surreal and admitting how "weird" it was to translate familiar Star Wars terms into Welsh:"What was weird is obviously, they’d had to translate all these things that we’d grown up with, knowing Star Wars. I was saying in Welsh things like 'pelydr cyrchu'... It's kind of like 'tractor beam.' There were words I’ve never used before, and I was tripping on them." Read full article on The Direct.