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It must be awful for an actor to have to carry the guilt of killing a beloved character in a film. A rapid fan base constantly attacks you for killing off their favorite character. Think of the horrible time the hunter must have had after Bambi (1942) was released. Fans calling him a “murder” as he went for his morning coffee, only for him to yell back that it was “just a movie.” Imagine the hate mail that Alan Rickman must have received when he killed Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). And what made it worse was that the audience soon found out that Dumbledore had asked him to do it.
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But no film death has been more maligned by a fan base than when Harrison Ford’s Han Solo was killed by Adam Driver’s Kilo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Since then, fans have hounded Driver for killing off the beloved character. Fans would yell at Driver on the streets for his transgression against Han Solo. For Star Wars fans, Harrison Ford and, by extension, Han Solo were the closest things to “cool” that the fanbase had, and to lose that, especially Han being killed by his son, hurt all Star Wars fans.
But finally, after eight long years, Adam Driver has answered for his transgressions. Driver was hosting Saturday Night Live for the fourth time in his career. When he took the stage at Rockefeller Center for his opening monologue, Driver decided to sing for the audience and make a few requests of Santa Claus.
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Driver, who just turned 40, asked for five pairs of Chinos, a respectable gift for a man of his age. And then he came to the moment Star Wars fans have waited for: Han Solo’s death. Driver said to Santa:
I’d like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo.’ I didn’t kill Han Solo. Wokeness killed Han Solo.
The bit continued as Drive asked Santa to kill the Tic Tok couples who played pranks on each other, a fair request. But it was his accusation that it wasn’t Kylo Ren who ended up stabbing his father through the stomach with a lightsaber, but instead some sort of “woke” mob that drew the most attention from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
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Well, it turns out that this explanation is simply not good enough, Ben Solo. When you killed your father and devastated your mother, Princess Leia, it hurt all of us. So, while we accept that that is a mythical energy field like the Force, we do not accept that mythical “wokeness” that you say killed Han Solo. And you know what? Luke Skywalker wouldn’t accept it either.
So, while Adam Driver attempted to give his penance, no Star Wars fan wanted to hear it. He killed the coolest character in the Star Wars franchise, and we will not accept that. No, not even Santa Claus will help him out of this mess.
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