#24: From Carpentry to the Cockpit of the Millennium Falcon
Harrison Ford struggled for years to make a sustainable living as an actor in Los Angeles. Because of the challenge, he learned professional carpentry to support his young family. While working on a carpentry job at a studio, director George Lucas hired Ford to perform a simple task: read lines off-camera to assist other actors who were auditioning for a new science fiction film. He later got the part to play Han Solo in Star Wars (1977).
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