--- title: Emilia Clarke Debuts Chewbacca Impression on Fallon description: Emilia Clarke was tasked with attempting to translate some of Chewbacca's dialogue into the Wookiee's native language. It didn't go well. canonical: https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-22T15:23:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:03.431Z og:title: Don't Call Emilia Clarke for a Star Wars Impression og:description: "That's worse than I thought it was in my head" og:url: https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d98e240f708c0be/6989311f0a4a2210869d2c85/screen-shot-2018-05-22-at-10-09-37-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2018-05-22 at 10.09.37 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Don't Call Emilia Clarke for a Star Wars Impression twitter:description: "That's worse than I thought it was in my head" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d98e240f708c0be/6989311f0a4a2210869d2c85/screen-shot-2018-05-22-at-10-09-37-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emilia Clarke Can't Stop Laughing Through Her Awful Chewbacca Impression  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 22, 2018 3:23 PM UTC  NBC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 22, 2018 3:23 PM UTC [Emilia Clarke](http://time.com/5281040/emilia-clarke-daenerys-game-of-thrones-ending/) may play [Daenerys](http://time.com/5268892/emilia-clarke-met-gala-2018/) Stormborn of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons on [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5277707/game-of-thrones-cast-irl-2018/), but when it comes to the world of _Star Wars_, there’s apparently one role even she can’t master. During a Monday appearance on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ to promote her new movie, _Solo: A Star Wars Story_, Clarke was tasked with attempting to translate some of Chewbacca’s dialogue into the Wookiee’s native language. The results were unfortunate to say the least. “Oh my god! That’s worse than I thought it was in my head,” she exclaimed. “I was like it’s going to be bad, but that’s terrible.” “I thought mine was bad but that is really up there,” the host added. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/"},"headline":"Emilia Clarke Can't Stop Laughing Through Her Awful Chewbacca Impression","datePublished":"2018-05-22T15:23:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:03.431Z","description":"\"That's worse than I thought it was in my head\"","url":"https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","TV","emilia clarke","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d98e240f708c0be/6989311f0a4a2210869d2c85/screen-shot-2018-05-22-at-10-09-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d98e240f708c0be/6989311f0a4a2210869d2c85/screen-shot-2018-05-22-at-10-09-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2018-05-22 at 10.09.37 AM","caption":"","creditText":"NBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5287041/emilia-clarke-fallon-chewbacca-impression/","name":"Emilia Clarke Can't Stop Laughing Through Her Awful Chewbacca Impression"}}]}] ```