LOS ANGELES — Harrison Ford was a little scruffy lookin' on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but only because he was dressed as a dog. In a hot-dog suit.

Han Solo himself went on the Disney-owned ABC show in head-to-toe costume Thursday night. But for once, he was the only person on the set not dressed as a Star Wars character. And no, he didn't say much about Star Wars: The Force Awakens — though he did drop one potentially ominous hint.

“What is there to say? And why would you want to say anything?" he told Kimmel, who dared ask whether Ford could talk about the movie. "I want the audience to experience it ... I don’t want them to hear it from me."

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With Kimmel's crew and band in Star Wars costumes (Kimmel himself was a bearded Princess Leia), Ford walked on as "a dog in a hot-dog suit," and conducted the entire interview with as much dignity as he could mustard. Er, muster.

(Ford is known for his full-body Halloween costumes, a tradition he started while trying to take his kids trick-or-treating without attracting attention.)

Woof. Image: Josh L. Dickey

Ford gave no details about the movie, but did express an enormous amount of confidence about J.J. Abrams' take on The Force Awakens, and hinted that there's a reason Luke Skywalker isn't pictured on the official poster.

"There wasn’t room," he joked.

Then he went on:

"There was a very good reason. I can’t tell you. Nothing. I can tell you this: [The movie is] really, really good. Trust me. It’s really good. The new cast, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac ... are phenomenal. J.J. has made an incredible movie. You will not be disappointed. At all."

Kimmel actually started the interview talking about Ford's near-fatal plane crash in March.

"I’m glad that you’re alive, I really am," Kimmel said, asking Ford whether he remembered much.

“I remember the engine stopping," Ford said. "I remember that part very well. And then I remember telling the tower what I was going to do. I remember their suggestion … that I take the normal route to land. And I knew I wasn’t going to do that so I said 'No.' And that’s the last thing I remember until five days after.”

And he thought those costumes smelled bad ... on the outside. Image: Josh L. Dickey

He said he wasn't unconscious that long — it's just that the amount of general anesthesia caused "a retrograde amnesia" that wiped out a lot of his memory. Probably not that unlike the effects of the carbonite freezing.

Ford did suggest, perhaps ominously, that he had once hoped that Han Solo would be killed off during the original Star Wars trilogy. Because Solo wasn't wrapped up in the larger struggle within the Force, "I thought it would be good if the character sacrificed himself in some noble way."

Hmm. That could cause a disturbance.

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