10 Ways Star Wars Actors FIXED Scenes They Hated

10. Mark Hamill Wore The Vader Mask (Because He Hated The Prop Head) - The Empire Strikes Back

In The Empire Strikes Back's iconic Dark Side Cave scene, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has a vision of being attacked by Darth Vader (David Prowse), but when Luke decapitates him with a lightsaber, he sees his own head staring back at him inside Vader's destroyed mask.

It's a chilling, brilliantly executed scene, but one which wasn't quite coming together for Mark Hamill during shooting. Originally, a prosthetic of Luke's head was going to be placed within Vader's mask for the shot of Luke's face staring up, but Hamill was dissatisfied with the quality of the prop.

And so, the scene was re-shot with Hamill simply poking his head up from underneath the set's stage and into the Vader mask, ensuring Luke's decapitated head looked considerably more realistic, not being a prop and all.

This scene proves yet again that the simplest solution is often the right one. No fancy effects needed - just a guy shoving his head through a hole in the set.

On Twitter, however, Hamill added that shooting the scene this way did present an additional challenge: trying not to blink when the smoke wafted across his face.