This weekend, Star Wars veteran Carrie Fisher took a break from J.J. Abrams’s hugely anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII to speak at the Hay Festival, a celebration of literature and the arts in Wales. There, the actress and author could not help but discuss her reunion with Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill—the O.G. Star Wars gang members whom, Fisher confessed, all look “a little melted” these days.

Although she obviously would not give up plot details, Fisher joked that she is pushing for Princess Leia to have the same iconic double-bunned hairstyle: “That hairdo can never really be repeated without gales of laughter. I’ve begged them to put the hair back on in grey and just catch me cooking with the hair, like Granny Leia.”

If Fisher really had her way, though, the actress would be playing Harrison Ford’s character, Han Solo, this time around.

I would rather have played Han Solo. When I first read the script I thought that’s the part to be, always wry and sardonic. He’s always that. I feel like a lot of the time Leia’s either worried or pissed or, thank God, sort of snarky. But I’m much more worried and pissed than Han Solo ever was, and those aren’t fun things to play.” Her best moment, she said, was killing the monstrous Jabba the Hutt. “I had a lot of fun killing Jabba the Hutt. They asked me on the day if I wanted to have a stunt double kill Jabba. No! That’s the best time I ever had as an actor. And the only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster.”

Regardless of where this adventure takes her character, Fisher jokes that she is excited to reprise the role “so I can get Princess Leia right this time.” Upon reviewing the original trilogy, Fisher said, “I looked a little pretentious faking the accent. It was sort of a viral accent—it came and went.” Star Wars: Episode VII is due in theaters December 2015.