Mark Hamill’s greatest remorse is lacking the prospect to work with Harrison Ford within the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Mark Hamill’s greatest remorse is lacking the prospect to work with Harrison Ford within the Star Wars sequel trilogy
Though the pair appeared in 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII – The Pressure Awakens, Ford’s Han Solo was killed off earlier than the film launched Hamill’s exiled Luke Skywalker, and the 74-year-old actor has now admitted he needs his Jedi grasp was given the chance to reunite with the smuggler in Disney’s new trilogy.
When requested which actor he most needed to work with throughout a latest instalment in The Hollywood Reporter’s Roundtables sequence – which additionally featured Adam Sandler, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Jacob Elordi, Michael B. Jordan and Jeremy Allen White – Hamill stated: “Nicely, within the sequel trilogy, Harrison Ford.
“Trigger I solely had two cameos, and the center one we by no means … Aren’t we gonna have a second the place all three of us [including Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia] get collectively and lift the roof? It’ll solely take 30 seconds.”
The Lengthy Stroll actor added he had spoken with The Pressure Awakens director J.J. Abrams about Luke Skywalker crossing paths with Han Solo, however his plea seemingly fell on deaf ears.
Hamill continued: “And J.J. stated, ‘Nicely, Mark, it’s not Luke’s story anymore,’ and I stated, ‘Star Wars wasn’t Obi-Wan’s story, however Alec Guinness had an important … You recognize. Anyway, no one listens to me.”
Each Hamill and Ford would as soon as once more seem in 2019’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, although an on-screen reunion between the pair nonetheless didn’t occur.
Hamill has lengthy voiced his grievances concerning the characterisation of Luke Skywalker within the sequel trilogy, notably in 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi, and revealed he had shared his considerations with director Rian Johnson earlier than agreeing to play the Jedi grasp as he was written within the script.
Throughout an look on the Bullseye with Jesse Thorn podcast, he stated: “I advised him [Johnson] this – even though I disagree along with your selections for Luke, I’m going to do every little thing inside my energy to make your screenplay work as greatest as I can.
“And the one factor unlucky about that’s, I’ve heard feedback from followers who suppose that I by some means dislike Rian Johnson, and nothing might be farther from the reality.”
Regardless of his emotions about how the blockbuster dealt with Luke Skywalker, Hamill had nothing however reward for the Knives Out filmmaker, and referred to as The Final Jedi “an important film”.
