Mark Hamill has spoken often about how proud he's been to pass the torch for the Star Wars franchise to a new generation of actors in the current trilogy. Harrison Ford, though? He can't be bothered to care.

The Han Solo actor has been notoriously grumpy about his rouge smuggler character in his approach to his Star Wars legacy over the years, but he did famously return for JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Yet, he continues to insist that he was entirely unsentimental about playing Han Solo again, 30 years on. He makes that point abundantly clear in a New York Times profile, when he's asked specifically about how it felt to turn over the franchise to a new generation with The Force Awakens.

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"I don't know that I thought of it that way at all," he (probably) grunted. "I was there to die. And I didn't really give a rat's ass who got my sword."

That's exactly what Han would say though, isn't it? Young co-star John Boyega also relays a story in the NYT profile about the time he playfully called out Harrison when he insisted on standing centre in a publicity photo.

"Harrison was just like, 'See that, kid? I'm the star'," Boyega recalled. "And I said to him, 'Yeah, mate, you ain't going to be the star when you get stabbed by Kylo Ren'."

Ouch! Despite his apparent nonchalance about his Star Wars legacy, both Kathleen Kennedy and Ron Howard recently revealed that Ford secretly served as an unofficial advisor during the making of prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Solo: A Star Wars Story will be released on May 25. Watch a trailer below:

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