Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 10 Concerns Raised By The Full Trailer
10. Mark Hamill's Over-The-Top Line Delivery
Mark Hamill didn't get a line of dialogue in the last Star Wars outing, which left fans in a state of both shock and confusion. This time around, though, there's no doubting how much of a part the actor will play: he's visible right there in the middle of the new trailer, speaking actual words and sentences and everything.
And yet there's something awfully off about his performance, don't you think? Hamill's delivery of his most famous character's lines are strange and unnatural; he feels less like Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, and more like a curmudgeonly old dude who experimented with a lot of drugs in the '70s.
The infliction the actor puts on his line, "It does now," feels absurdly dramatic and overwrought. Same goes for "This is not going to go the way you think!"
Now, fine: maybe this is how Rian Johnson wanted Luke to come across, as opposed to the more stoic-looking Skywalker glimpsed at the end of The Force Awakens. And perhaps there's an element of not having seen Hamill in a role like this for a number of decades that makes his line readings feel so... odd.
Hopefully this is just a matter of said scenes being out of context and not something to legitimately worry about (even though Hamill previously admitted he totally disagrees with everything Johnson has done with the character).