Should This Harrison Ford Lookalike Play the Young Han Solo?

This week, word got out that Disney and Lucasfilm are leaving no stone unturned in their search for an actor that can take on a very heady task: Playing a young version of Han Solo in an upcoming Star Wars spin-off film. So far, more than 2,500 actors have read for the part in directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s movie, including stars such as Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars), Miles Teller (Whiplash), and Logan Lerman (Fury).

It’s not a bad list, but none of them much resemble the original Solo, played by Harrison Ford, who was in his mid-thirties when 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope opened. So let’s hope that the Lord and Miller, the directors of 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie, are also taking a long look at Anthony Ingruber.

The 25-year-old Ingruber is a prolific impersonator who looks so much like Ford that he was plucked off of YouTube — where he posts many of his impersonations — to play a young version of the actor in this year’s romantic drama, The Age of Adaline. The casting came six years after Ingruber posted his first video impersonation of Ford as Solo, which you can watch below.

When the two finally worked together, the veteran actor was left pretty impressed.

“He is a very talented young actor who has a very complicated role to play,” Ford said in a DVD extra for The Age of Adaline (below), “and I think he’s great.”

For his part, Ingruber said in the above cilp that when he saw Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back at age six, loved Solo so much that he was inspired to become an actor. If Ingruber does manage to land an audition for the new Han film, we’ve got some Han-spun words of advice for him: Don’t get cocky.

Analyzing the candidates for the new Han Solo movie: