Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chewbacca
5. He's A Lot Older Than You Think
Almost 20 years may have passed between the end of Revenge of the Sith and the start of A New Hope, but Chewbacca didn't look like he'd aged a damn day.
Chewie also didn't appear to possess any new grey hairs when he popped back up in The Force Awakens, 30 years on from the conclusion of Return of the Jedi.
The reason? Wookiees have a massive average lifespan of 400 years!
So, the entire Skywalker Saga timeline (67 years) only really takes up a small chunk of his overall life, with Chewie actually already being a whopping 200 years old when fans first met him in Episode IV.
This also explains why Chewie is able to go so long without seeing his family back home and not feeling massively homesick. In Wookiee years, he wasn't really gone that long at all when he was away kicking Imperial/First Order ass throughout the Galactic Civil and First Order wars.
And with Chewie still only being in his mid-200s coming out of The Rise of Skywalker, perhaps he could still show up in the upcoming Daisy Ridley-starring Star Wars feature to say hello to his old mate Rey while she's building the Jedi Order, too.