Calista Flockhart Thought the Millennium Falcon Was an Airline

In recent months, Harrison Ford has grudgingly acknowledged that he has a soft spot for Star Wars — but apparently, not enough to show the films to his wife Calista Flockhart. During a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Supergirl actress Flockhart admitted that she was completely in the dark about all things Han Solo until this year. In fact, when a producer on Star Wars: The Force Awakens called to inform her of Ford’s accident on the Millennium Falcon, she had no idea what the Millennium Falcon was.

“A producer called me and she said, ‘Hi Calista, I have some bad news. Harrison has been hurt. He had an accident: he was standing on a Millennium Falcon and the door fell,’” Flockhart told Kimmel. “And I thought that he was on some commercial airline, and the door fell off and he flew out of the airplane!”

Totally confounded, Flockhart called a friend. “I said, ‘What the hell is the Millennium Falcon? I have never heard of that airline!’” she recalled. (Never heard of that airline? It’s the airline that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!)

It seems that the incident inspired Flockhart to complete her Star Wars education; when asked if she’d seen any of the movies, she replied, “I have now.”

Back in June, while filming J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars film, Ford broke his leg when a door on the set of his character’s spaceship fell on him. Production on the film was halted temporarily and resumed in August. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theaters on December 18.

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