Joonas plays the iconic character in the new Star Wars installment!
Want to learn to speak Wookiee? Then learn from Chewbacca himself – actor Joonas Suotamo!
The professional basketball player turned actor sits down with BackstageOL to teach us how to speak Wookiee and explains how Chewbacca’s language isn’t a bunch of nonsensical noises.
The film’s synopsis:
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters May 25th. Check out the full interview with Suotamo below!