In August, shortly after Ron Howard stepped in to take over Solo: A Star Wars Story from fired directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, a part originally played by Michael K. Williams had to be cut out when he couldnāt make room for Howardās reshoots in his schedule. Paul Bettany was then brought in to play the same character, or at least a similar character filling the same role in the story, but we never really found out who Williamsā character was. Now that heās been freed from the tightly contained Lucasfilm system, though, Williams seems pretty willing to give some details on this crazy Star Wars character weāll (probably) never get to see now.
Appearing on SiriusXMās Jim And Sam Show, Williams explained that his character, a motion capture-based creation called Dryden Vos, was a āhalf mountain lion, half humanā guy who was āextremely sophisticatedā and āvery rich.ā There was also some kind of love triangle-ish tension between Dryden Vos, Emilia Clarkeās Qiāra, and Alden Ehrenreichās young Han Solo, with Williams saying it eventually turned into a āpissing contestā between him and Han. When Howard came on board, Williams was already off filming a different role and couldnāt make time to come back, especially since Howard apparently needed to reshoot everything Williams had already done.
You can see a clip of the chat below.
[via io9]
