Solo's Chewbacca Shares Hilarious Photo With Lord Of The Rings Cast

Chewbacca thespian Joonas Suotamo fromSolo : A Star Wars Storyis poking playfulness at his top in a new photograph with three of the stars fromThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy . Suotamo , 31 , got the chance of a lifetime in 2015 when he got to be a double for Peter Mayhew for the iconic role of Chewbacca forStar war : The Force Awakens . The film , however , marked the end of the road for the then-70 - twelvemonth - old Mayhew as the far-famed Wookie . He originate the office in 1977’sStar Warsand went on to reprise it for four moreStar Warsfilms , including the 2015 blockbuster that ushered in a new epoch of champion in a galaxy far , far away .

Of course , it was Mayhew ’s 7 - foot-3 tallness that made him an levy figure on set , so Lucasfilm had to find a suitable replacement for the actor after he filmedThe Force Awakens . They recover him with Suotamo , a 6 - foot-11 native of Finland who made his heavy screen debut officially billed as " Chewbacca double " forThe Force Awakensbefore inheriting the role forStar warfare : The Last Jedi . Being that Wookies age well , Chewbacca also appear inSoloat the tender age of 190 , where Han Solo ( Alden Ehrenreich ) and the walking carpet converge for the first time , and spurt a womb-to-tomb friendly relationship .

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by nature , playing Chewbacca has made Suotamo an instant sensation , which means he ’s already frequent the fan normal electric circuit . His a la mode stop was a Wizard World Philadelphia over the weekend , where he assemble three of the four actors who played the main Hobbits fromThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy — Elijah Wood , Sean Astin and Billy Boyd — and could n’t overleap an opportunity to take a photo with the fantasy film icons . Suotamo then partake the photo on hisTwitter , but showing a wonderful sense of humor about it by highlight the height disparity between he and Wood ( who is 5 - foot-6 ) , Astin ( 5 - foot-7 ) and Boyd ( 5 - foot-6 - 1/2 ) . See the hilarious picture below :

It ’s always funny seeing an player willing to poking sport at themselves , and in this case , Suotamo ’s brainless pic in all likelihood attracted much more attending than it would have if he did n’t crop himself out . The worker radiate in anothertweet,“Believe me it ’s rattling when your fun tweet gets to be a featured story on Twitter , just wonderful!“Boyd also got in on the fun , noting in atweet,“Chewbacca ’s pits smell really good . "

Hopefully Suotamo will get to have many more opportunities to seem as Chewbacca on the big screen after he returns forStar Wars : Episode IX . But even if Suotamo does n’t get a chance to reprise the character in any moreStar Warsspinoffs , he at least seems uncoerced to take part in some very funny photo ops at lover normal .