20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
9. Mark Hamill's Other Role
Not only did the mighty Mark Hamill score top billing during his proper return to the franchise in Episode VIII - that ridiculously short Force Awakens cameo definitely didn't count! - but he also managed to surprisingly land not one, but two parts in The Last Jedi.
Listen closely when BB-8 is ambushed by a little alien gambler in Canto Bight and you'll perhaps recognise the creatures grumbles and growls. That's because Hamill's voice was very much the one coming out of Dobbu Scay's mouth - an anagram of the name of the film's editor Bob Duscay - in the flick.
It is commonly (& mistakenly) reported that I only did the voice of Dobbu Scay, but I filmed the scene in a full motion-capture suit w/ a giant-sized medicine ball to make me the same size as BB-8. I didn't expect to be credited, assuming it would be another unbilled easter-egg. https://t.co/f6hAPOstxR
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) June 29, 2019
The legendary voice actor actually went out of his way to ask his director for an additional CGI role in the movie (via EW). And this wasn't simply a case of sitting in a recording booth and pretending to be the amphibian, Hamill actually had to don a full motion-capture suit and act opposite a giant BB-8 to play the diminutive menace (via CinemaBlend).
Just your average day at the Star Wars office then...