I Want an Alden Ehrenreich and Adam Driver Buddy Comedy

This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Alden Ehrenreich has a hell of a lot of funny stories. Ehrenreich was discovered by Steven Spielberg at a friend's bat mitzvah, he did three months of extensive lasso training for Hail, Caesar!, and he knows how to survive a bear attack (even if said bear is on cocaine and made of CGI). But according to the Oppenheimer star, one of his greatest loves is improv comedy.

In the latest episode of "Explain This," Ehrenreich jokes with Esquire about a Star Wars fan wanting to see him and Adam Driver in a comedy together. For context: while many Star Wars actors do get to share the screen together, Ehrenreich played a younger version of Han Solo is his own spinoff prequel, Solo. Responding to a fan who wrote on Twitter that they would love to see Ehrenreich and Driver in a buddy comedy together, the actor hilariously brought up that Driver is "my son, technically" in Star Wars canon. "So, maybe like one of these Bad Grandpa things that [Robert] De Niro does with these young guys," Ehrenreich quips.

The actor also poked fun at his role in Oppenheimer—which is in theaters now—describing it as, "a senate aid who is overseeing Robert Downey Jr.'s character's senate confirmation hearing." It's a three-hour-long drama, folks! "That's really gonna get people into the theaters," he says with a laugh. "That sentence." Oppenheimer has a large cast, but Ehrenreich says that he plays, "probably the only character in the entire film—which has a thousand million people in it—who isn't an actual historical figure."

Well, hopefully Ehrenreich will soon star in what sounds like the opposite of Oppenheimer: a Star Wars-themed, Bad Grandpa-esque film... opposite Adam Driver.

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