Sometimes, the role of a lifetime ends up costing you another role of a lifetime. So goes the story of Charlie Cox. Though the actor has been around for years, with credits that include The Theory of Everything and the underrated Stardust, most now know him for playing Daredevil on the Netflix series of the same name. And yet, a technique that's crucial to playing Matt Murdock on the show might have cost Cox a part in a movie shooting in a galaxy far, far away.

Daredevil is blind. Which means that, when he plays him, Charlie Cox often stares off into the distance, focusing on... nothing. In an interview with THR, the actor admits that this might have cost him the role of Han Solo in the planned prequel story set around the classic Star Wars hero. Cox admits:

I had gone to an audition --- one of those things that are super secretive and they don't tell you, but I'm pretty sure it was for the Han Solo reboot--- and halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, 'Why aren't you looking at me?' I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact, because the only thing I had done for two years is play someone who is blind. I never got invited back, probably because they couldn't figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot.

Go ahead. Laugh it up, fuzzball.