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'Star Wars' Questions: Would Elvis have made a good Han Solo in 'Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope'?

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Short version: No. More elaborate version: Even though I’m not an Elvis Presley fan, I respect his achievements as a singer and take my hat off to his popularity. Presley contributed greatly to the pop music world, and from what little I’ve seen, he was a passable actor in lightweight “musical” movies such as  Viva Las Vegas  and  Blue Hawaii. That having been said, Elvis was a singer. He was  not  a professional actor, nor could he have given George Lucas a credible performance as  any  of the  Star Wars  characters, much less as one of the three main leads. And even if he had been able to act decently, he was too old, too addicted to drugs, and way out of shape to have played the iconic smuggler-turned-Rebel. In a nutshell,  Star Wars  would have been a disaster if Presley had been cast as Han Solo.