Adam Driver Says He Is ‘Reminded Every Day’ That He Murdered Han Solo in ‘The Force Awakens’

Samantha Bergeson
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Adam Driver doesn’t totally stand by his “Star Wars” character Kylo Ren’s dark side.

Appearing on an episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on Max, the actor revealed that he is reminded by “Star Wars” fans “every day” that he killed beloved character Han Solo. The fatal battle sequence took place in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with Kylo Ren committing patricide.

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“Somebody reminds me about that every day,” Driver joked. “Not every day but yeah, it used to be more but now it’s probably once a month somewhere.”

Driver reflected on filming the “emotional” scene with co-star Ford, saying, “Obviously, John Williams’ [score] wasn’t playing in the background and it was very emotional actually, shooting it with Harrison. Harrison was so generous and contemplative and to me that was a great moment on set, even though it was his death.”

Driver has starred in three “Star Wars” sequels alongside new franchise lead Daisy Ridley. As for signing on to the iconic Lucasfilm franchise, Driver said, “I took it really seriously and thought about it a lot and was very on the fence. I was aware that it was a great opportunity. And I didn’t I didn’t want to be in it and be bad. You know, like, a lot of people were going to watch it. I was a fan of those movies.”

Driver told The New Yorker in 2019 that he actually got nauseous when the aforementioned confrontation between Han Solo and Kylo Ren was included in the film.

“I just went totally cold,” Driver said of watching the movie, “because I knew the scene was coming up where I had to kill Han Solo, and people were, like, hyperventilating when the title came up, and I felt like I had to puke.”

The “Marriage Story” star allegedly also told author Lev Grossman that he had comprised a whole backstory about how Han Solo and Leia (Carrie Fisher) were subpar parents to Kylo Ren, thus leading to him turning to the dark side and echoing his grandfather, Darth Vader, and (somewhat) providing a deeper reason for killing Han Solo.

“[Adam Driver] had a lot of interesting thoughts about Ben Solo’s childhood,” Grossman said in an Inverse interview from 2020. “He said that both Han Solo and Leia were way too self-absorbed and into this idea of themselves as heroes to really be attentive parents in the way a young and tender Kylo Ren really needed. There wasn’t really that much of it in the movie so I just think we have to assume his childhood sucked.”

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