“Being in American Graffiti almost caused him to miss a chance at being cast in Star Wars because Lucas didn’t want to reuse actors from his previous work, but the casting director kept pushing him on Lucas and employed him to do carpentry work at the office where the casting was taking place. Lucas recognized him and pulled him in to feed some lines to other actors during auditions, and that was how he ultimately ended up being able to audition for the Han Solo role.”
