Solo: A Star Wars Story is almost here, and the cast is talking more about the spin-off movie. Although production for it wasn’t smooth sailing, they have gotten some extra help. That, of course, includes some from the original Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford.

Ford has been vocal about wanting to move on from the franchise, but he still is part of it by advising newcomer Alden Ehrenreich on what he should do with the role. Ehrenreich, director Ron Howard, and producer Kathleen Kennedy revealed some of what that collaboration entailed.

Here are seven things we know about it, including the secret Harrison Ford told Alden Ehrenreich.

1. Ron Howard claimed Ford shared what Solo is torn about

The director has talked about Ford helping the cast better understand the character he has been tied to for decades. Part of that is what makes Solo so conflicted.

The director said, according to Entertainment Weekly:

Harrison’s a very thoughtful actor and an artist, and I wanted to know what he learned about the character. He said that Han is always torn between that sense that he was, in a way, an orphan, and therefore both yearned for connection with people and struggled with it at the same time. I thought that was pretty interesting.

The movie does look like it’s taking some fun things from the heist genre. But it sounds like the film might also heavily focus on this yearning of Solo’s, given what Ehrenreich has said about the tone of the movie.

Next: Ehrenreich revealed the movie will have this kind of tone.