How to Speak Wookiee with Chewbacca Actor Joonas Suotamo

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!