10 Things We Learned From Mark Hamill At Star Wars Celebration Europe

1. He Has A Very Interesting Take On George Lucas

Hamill did a lot of impressions in the hour, although none was more striking than his one of George Lucas, portraying the maker as an awkward, shuffling, quiet figure.

This first came up when discussing the safety of the rope swing (not much), with the director not wanting the actor hurt (but for entirely non-compassionate reasons), and came up again when discussing the complex dialogue (he had a lot of fun taking apart that memorised audition line). After a spot-on impression of Harrison Ford’s “you can write this sh*t” statement, he told of how he used to talk to Lucas about ideas regarding his character, to which the director would respond “we’ll talk about it later” before never addressing it again.

“When I did the screen test I thought, ‘Is this parody? Is it like a Mel Brooks movie?’ So I said to George, ‘Is this like a parody of Flash Gordon?’ And George said, ‘We’ll talk about it later.’ And of course you learn that you never talk about it later. It’s technique of his. You go up and ask a director a question and they say they’ll come back to you, but they never do.”

It sounds this is a common case for Hamill, so perhaps it’s just that he’s too enthusiastic (that definitely seemed to be the case today).

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