Kurt Russell could have been Han Solo

Here’s his audition tape. Not easy to watch – Russell’s Solo seems like he would have been far, far less badass than Harrison Ford’s turned out to be. Anyway, in the mid-1970s Kurt Russell was known mostly for his Disney movies, even though his turn as psychotic sniper Charles Whitman in 1975’s The Deadly Tower tried to rid him of that perma-clean image. It would be a few more years before he would really get a badass role, that of Snake Plissken in 1981’s Escape from New York.

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