10 Ways Star Wars Actors FIXED Scenes They Hated

Now for what's by far the most famous of all the on-the-fly changes made by frustrated Star Wars actors.

At the end of The Empire Strikes Back when Han is about to be frozen in carbonite, Leia tells him, "I love you," and Han was originally scripted to say back, "I love you, too."

But Harrison Ford felt that it wasn't consistent with Han's established character for him to say this to Leia, and so improvised a more on-brand retort, with Han instead telling her, "I know."

This more aloof, distant response was absolutely better-suited to Han's character, and remains both one of the character's defining moments and one of the most memorable beats in the entire Star Wars franchise.

Though Ford did shoot a version of the scene as scripted for safety's sake, when both versions were tested in front of an audience, it was clear that his improvised revision was the one to go with. And like that, cinematic history was made.