By: Dominic Jones
In honor of Mark Hamill's birthday, StarWars.com has released a brand new interview with the Luke Skywalker actor covering various facets of his time in the galaxy far, far away. Hamill was interviewed by Dan Brooks about how he approached returning to Luke for The Last Jedi and he reflected on some classic scenes from the Original Trilogy. Check out some excerpts from the interview below,
About how he approached his role in The Last Jedi, Hamill said,
"Your job when you read a script is to figure out what is
required of your character to make the screenplay as successful as it
can be when it’s realized on film. What’s my role in the overall scope
of things?
The problem here was that he’s had, like you say, the 30-plus years
of history, which is never really spelled out. J.J. [Abrams in The Force Awakens]
used the character, it was so ambiguous. I look back now and I say,
“What else was he supposed to do?” I mean, here he has to come up with
this whole new set of characters. He has to finish the Han Solo
storyline. If he had to also include me, it would have been just laden
with exposition. Better to shove Luke down the road and resolve his
story later."
He also shared his memories of shooting the scene where Obi-Wan hands Luke the lightsaber in A New Hope, saying,
"Well, I knew this was going to be an iconic weapon in the film. And one
of George’s brilliant touches was the lived-in atmosphere. You know, the
spaceships were beat up with dents and oil drips. It had that Western
movie feel. It was gritty. It wasn’t gleaming sleek spaceships and so
forth. It really looked like a lived-in galaxy. Any scene with Alec was
exciting for me and, again, I just fell right into what I was supposed
to be, which was a young student in awe of a true master. So that came
naturally. Just listening to him, his voice is like a great massage on
the back of the neck. You know, we say [in a gruff accent], “Woree-uhs.” And he says [in Alec Guinness voice], “Warriors.” Almost three syllables."
Happy Birthday Mark!
Source: StarWars.com
Follow The Star Wars Underworld on Twitter @TheSWU for more updates about this story and other breaking Star Wars news.
-vert.jpg)
0 comments:
Post a Comment