"There’s A Guy There Casting A Movie About Space": Kelsey Grammer Remembers His Han Solo Audition For Star Wars

Kelsey Grammer has shared his reflections on his audition to play Han Solo in Star Wars. The now-iconic character was eventually played by Harrison Ford in the 1977 blockbuster smash Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, with Ford returning to the role multiple times over the ensuing years and decades. Grammer wouldn’t have his first onscreen credit until he took a small role as a paramedic on two episodes of Another World in 1982, but he would eventually go on to massive success in the sitcom Cheers and its long-running spinoff Frasier, which focused on his titular erudite psychiatrist.