Star Wars: 10 Secrets Of The Millennium Falcon You Need To Know
7. Han Built Leia A Kitchen In The Falcon As A Wedding Gift
The Falcon has a small kitchenette for crew members to prepare meals, and the sequel trilogy's literature reveals that the galley was actually installed by Han as a wedding gift to Leia.
Once fans caught wind of this revelation, there was a small but notable backlash against Lucasfilm and specifically author Jason Fry, who penned The Force Awakens' reference book in which the illustration appears. Fry said in response:
"The idea wasn't that Princess Leia – General Organa, for Pete's sake – would obviously need a kitchen to potter around in, or feel the instinct to hang up her blaster and start cooking for her new husband and his Wookiee pal... That wasn't the idea at all. As I imagined it, the galley isn't there for Leia to cook in – it's there so someone else could use it to make something that Leia might want to eat."
"Leia's a military leader, so I don't see her as finicky. But she grew up as a member of the royal house of Alderaan and served in the Imperial Senate. Those months eating Corellian TV dinners and reheated Wookiee goulash on the Falcon had to rankle – and I imagined that later they'd become a humorous bone of contention between her and Han. Plus the Falcon is Han's home – as we all cheered to hear him tell Chewie back at Celebration."