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"I Had My Time": Mark Hamill Says He’s Done With ‘Star Wars’
- Mark Hamill announced in 2025 that he is done playing Luke Skywalker and has no plans to appear in future Star Wars films.
- Hamill’s decision follows a long career largely defined by Star Wars, though he pursued varied roles like voicing the Joker for three decades.
- Currently, Hamill stars as Albie, a widowed grandfather, in The Life of Chuck, a Mike Flanagan film adapting a 2020 Stephen King novella.
- Hamill reflected, "But my deal is, I had my time," expressing gratitude to George Lucas while encouraging focus on new characters and stories.
- His exit suggests Star Wars will focus on new heroes like Rey, with Lucasfilm developing sequels and series unrelated to Hamill's Jedi role.
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He first appeared in 1977 as a farmer who has to save a galaxy far, far away. After a series of other films, games and TV series, Mark Hamill is finally wrapping up his role as Luke Skywalker. And he hopes that Star Wars will completely free itself from the original characters.
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Mark Hamill Says Carrie Fisher Told Him to ‘Embrace’ His ‘Star Wars’ Fame After Downplaying It While Performing on Broadway: ‘Get Over Yourself. You’re Luke Skywalker’
Mark Hamill says Carrie Fisher once had to remind him where he came from. During a recent interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Hamill remembered that Fisher encouraged him to “embrace” his “Star Wars” roots after Hamill omitted the credit from a Broadway playbill. “[Carrie Fisher] came to see a Broadway show of mine,” Hamill said. “And in the playbill, in my bio, I listed all my theater credits and at the end it said, ‘He’s also known for a serie…
Mark Hamill recalls Carrie Fisher checking him for downplaying 'Star Wars fame: 'Get over yourself — you're Luke Skywalker'
"So she was someone that sort of put it in perspective for me," he admits of the late Fisher, who died in 2016.Jesse Grant/Getty Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher speak onstage during Star Wars Celebration 2015Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill didn't just play perhaps the most famous sibling pair of all time, they seem to have acted like it off the big screen, too.One time in particular, Fisher called him out for being a bit bashful about their Star War…
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