Joonas Suotamo is a Finnish actor and a former professional basketball player. He is best known for his role as Chewbacca in the Star Wars saga – first as a body double in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and later as the lead in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
The sequels of Star Wars are very controversial among the fans of the franchise. Also, it is common that the creator himself had a different vision of what they should have looked like, with Maul as the main antagonist for example.