"That's because Harrison insisted on it," she joked, referring to Harrison Ford, who returns to play Han Solo in Force Awakens.
Ford has already agreed to reprise another of his famous roles; he is due to play Han Solo in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode 7, alongside Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.
During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, to air on Friday, Ford knocked back assumptions that he is dead set to play Han Solo once again in JJ Abrams' upcoming Episode VII.
There's no news yet on who will play Han, who is expected to be in his 20s in the untitled prequel, though we do know that the film will be directed by The Lego Movie's Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the screenplay will from long-serving Star Wars scribe Lawrence Kasdan, and it won't be an origin story.
It was rumored previously that Harrison Ford was coming back to play Han Solo in the new film.
Gong Yoo, Korea's handsome, winsome male superstar, plays Han-Kyul, the playboy heir to a coffee fortune.
Leonardo DiCaprio, memorable as the sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie in "Django Unchained," originally "wanted to play Hans Landa," the Nazi villain in "Inglourious Basterds," said Stacey Sher, a producer of "Django Unchained," at a recent panel here organized by the Producers Guild of America.
He plays Super Hans on a great line between being a bullshitter and totally for real".
Just for the record, in case anyone else from Peep Show is worried, I'm definitely against death camps – just in case the bloke who plays Super Hans thinks I'm a Nazi".
Chris Pratt (from TV's Parks and Recreation) plays the Han-Solo-ish intergalactic freebooter Peter Quill, whose cynicism masks an inner hurt: he was abducted from Earth as a little kid just after his mom had died of cancer – a classic touch of comic-book fantasy, alchemising pain into superheroism – and always carries around the old-fashioned Sony Walkman with a mixtape his mother made for him.
In the late 1980s, Waltz played Dr Hans-Joachim Dorfman in The Gravy Train, a Channel 4 mini-series, and went on to appear (looking ill at ease and a trifle callow) as a buffoonish German spy in The All New Alexei Sayle Show.
