Miles Teller Confirms His Han Solo Audition and Talks About Fantastic Four's Failure

Miles Teller was one of the actors up for the role of Han Solo in the upcoming Star Wars spinoff being directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

During the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Teller confirmed that he auditioned for the role, and admitted that he had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy before the audtiion.

It's surprising to know that the 29-year-old actor who starred in sci-fi films like the Divergent movies and Fantastic Four hasn't seen the original Star Wars trilogy. Right now, the top choices for the role are Jack Reynor (Macbeth), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), and Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!).

Teller went on to talk about Fantastic Four, which bombed at the theaters.

"I think it was Clooney who said you can make a bad movie out of a good script, you can't make a good movie out of a bad script, and that's very true. If they're telling you maybe your part's not as big and they say, ‘Oh you're gonna be bigger in the sequel' or ‘Oh we're gonna rewrite' and ‘Yeah we're gonna take in all these notes,' if you're in a position where you can say hold off I'm not signing off on this dotted line until this script is exactly where you want it, then you're in a very fortunate position. Because I know actors that have been in literally Oscar-winning performances that told me that script was a struggle every day to get it to a place that [they] wanted it, and [they] were always fighting for the best version of it."

Back in September, Fantastic Four co-star Kate Mara condemned the film during an interview. But Teller instead praised all the hard work that went into creating the film:

"People think that when you make something like a Fantastic Four that doesn't do well, people think ‘Oh you phoned it in' and it couldn't be more untrue. You work harder on the bad films, or the films that turn out maybe not the way you intended, because something's not working. And I thought it was kind of unjustly critiqued that way; there are even bigger bombs if you're looking at how much money went into the production and what they reaped back. But I think it's unfortunate a movie like that becomes a scarlet letter on a resume when so many talented people worked really hard and maybe a handful of people took it in a negative direction. But so many people worked really hard on that that are so talented."

Sadly, "hard work" doesn't always equal "smart work". The Han Solo spinoff film will be released in theaters in May 25, 2017.