Star Wars Legend Mark Hamill Takes a ‘Silent’ Jab at His One Scene in The Force Awakens
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Ethan Butterfield
Star Wars veteran Mark Hamill takes to Twitter to deem The Force Awakens his only silent film.
Regardless of what some may think of The Force Awakens, the 2015 sci-fi epic was able to bring the mega-franchise back to the big screen in a big way. On top of giving older fans another chance to see a galaxy far, far away, The Force Awakens also gave newer fans a chance to experience the classic characters that made the series what it is today.
Among these characters is main staple hero, Luke Skywalker, portrayed by Mark Hamill. Hamill had a silent cameo-esqe role in The Force Awakens, playing the sort of MacGuffin type for the main heroes to seek out during their adventure. Since then, Hamill has been quite open with his feelings about the use of Luke during the now dubbed ‘Rise of the First Order’ era.
During the ‘May The Fourth Be With You’ Star Wars day celebrations, the popular YouTube channel Bad Lip Reading uploaded a clip of deleted footage from their Force Awakens video. Said video also features Mark Hamill doing an impression of Harrison Ford, something that Hamill can also be seen doing on an episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers.
«Found this short deleted scene from The Force Awakens on one of my backup drives. Seems an appropriate day to share. Once again @hamillhimself nails the Harrison Ford impression. A quick line in there from @jessicadicicco too! #maythe4thbewithyou #maythefourthbewithyou #maythe4th»
Hamill responded to the newly released footage via his Twitter account, while also giving a bit of a joking jab to his lack of dialogue in the actual Star Wars sequel.
«Listen as @BadLipReading gives me, not only a chance to dub Harrison, but more lines than I had in the actual film.
#EpVII_MyOnlySilentMovie»
This isn’t the first time Hamill has poked some fun at his character’s silence in The Force Awakens, as he has also made a joke during his Walk of Fame ceremony on March 8th of 2018. Garnering a pretty solid reaction from the crowd.»I haven’t been this speechless since #TheForceAwakens,» Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker says at his Walk of Fame ceremony #StarWars #JediDay
As well, on May 7th of 2020, Hamill also posted on his Twitter account another ‘wink wink, nudge nudge’ call back to his role in The Force Awakens.
«May The 7th Be The Episode That Left Me Speechless.»
On top of The Force Awakens, Hamill also hasn’t been shy about sharing his thoughts on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was certainly a dividing experience among fans, critics and regular viewers. These jabs and jokes aside, Hamill continues to be on the front lines of the Star Wars fanbase, whether it be reacting to fan theory discussions and taking time to discuss the franchise that he has been such an instrumental part of.
For those interested in seeing more from Mark Hamill, the veteran actor provides the voice for Art Rosenbaum in the animated superhero show, Invincible.
Mark Hamill Reveals His Hidden Role in ‘The Force Awakens’ Production
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Mark Hamill shared a story about the production of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) that reveals an important hidden role the legendary actor had in the film’s production. While Mark Hamill appeared in a brief, non-speaking role in Star Wars: Episode VII‘s final moments, the Luke Skywalker actor says he worked harder behind the scenes than he did on-screen.
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Related: Everything You Need To Know About Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill famously reprised his iconic Luke Skywalker role in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, appearing for a brief cameo in The Force Awakens (2015) before taking on a far more substantial role in The Last Jedi (2017).
The plot of The Force Awakens revolves around Rey (Daisy Ridley) seeking the reclusive Jedi Master to aid the Resistance in their stand against The First Order.
As the film comes to a conclusion, Rey discovers Luke Skywalker living sequestered on the remote planet of Ahch-To. In the scene, Rey offers Skywalker his old lightsaber as dramatic music swells, and the soon-to-be master and apprentice share a charged but silent moment. While this moment is undoubtedly important, both as the emotional crescendo of The Force Awakens and in setting up the second film of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Last Jedi, Hamill doesn’t exactly have much to do.
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Related: Disney+ Just Completely Changed ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
Twitter user Aaron Bossig played off of Hamill’s minimal role in Star Wars: Episode VII in a humorous comment made while sharing a photo of the cast of The Force Awakens, presumably during pre-production.
The photo features casually dressed castmates John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Adam Driver (Ben Solo / Kylo Ren), and Andy Serkis (Snoke) and the caption reads:
“If you ever feel like you’re wasting your time, just remember that Mark Hamill had to go to the script reading for The Force Awakens.”
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Ever the entertaining social media maven, Mark Hamill took notice of the Tweet and responded with some interesting behind-the-scenes insight revealing his hidden role as narrator for the cast of The Force Awakens table read — no small task considering the film’s two-hour-and-fifteen-minute runtime. Hamill says he read the whole script, save for the characters’ dialogue, while the cast worked out their roles as an ensemble. Mark Hamill explained his role for Lucasfilm on that day, saying:
“It wasn’t the waste of time you think. JJ [Abrams] had me read the entire script aloud, except for the character’s dialogue.
I actually did more work for Abrams on that one day than in Episodes 7 & 9 combined.”
It wasn’t the waste of time you think. JJ had me read the entire script aloud, except for the character’s dialogue. I actually did more work for Abrams on that one day than in Episodes 7 & 9 combined. https://t.co/v4hzPKscwg
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) June 28, 2021
Hamill’s largest role in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was in 2017’s The Last Jedi, which was directed not by J.J. Abrams, but by controversial (to Star Wars fans) director Rian Johnson. Hamil’s final performance as Jedi Master Luke Skywalker came as a Force Ghost in The Rise of Skywalker (2019) directed and written by Abrams. The film’s cast included Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Star Wars legends Billy Dee Williams, and Carrie Fisher.
You can catch up on the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the entire Skywalker Saga, and the Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni Mandolorian saga — with the next chapter set to occur on The Book of Boba Fett coming in December 2021 — on Disney+.
You can even catch the surprise top secret cameo of a digitally de-aged version of Star Wars actor Mark Hamill slicing and dicing dark troopers with his lightsaber in the instantly classic Mandalorian season 2 finale!
Were you pleased with how Luke Skywalker’s Star Wars story ended in the sequel trilogy? Let us know in the comments!
John Mangan
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Mark Hamill could not explain the «hole» in the Star Wars plot
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Mark Hamill could not explain the «hole» in the Star Wars plot
Mark Hamill could not explain the «hole» in the plot of Star Wars — RIA Novosti, 04/29/2020
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MOSCOW, April 29 — RIA Novosti. American actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movie saga, could not explain the hole in the plot of the saga involving the droid R2-D2, which was noticed by one of the fans, reports ET Canada. «My daughter asked, ‘R2-D2 has been around throughout history and has never had his memory erased. Why didn’t he just tell Luke at some point that Darth Vader was his father?» I was shocked by these words,» musician John Roderick tweeted. The publication went viral on the Web: it gained more than 200 thousand likes and almost 28 thousand comments in which users discussed how this could happen. According to one version, the droid simply did not want to get into other people’s business.
Later, Mark Hamill also joined the discussion, who stated: «When I read this tweet, I thought for a long time. Then I just shrugged. I have nothing to say.» In the Star Wars movies, small mechanical robots store a lot of information. Therefore, R2-D2 knew many secrets, including that Luke and Leia are siblings.
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MOSCOW, April 29 — RIA Novosti. American actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movie saga, could not explain the hole in the plot of the saga involving the droid R2-D2, which was noticed by one of the fans, reports ET Canada.
«My daughter asked, ‘R2-D2 has been around throughout history and has never been erased.
Why didn’t he just tell Luke at some point that Darth Vader was his father?» I was shocked by these words,» musician John Roderick tweeted.
The post went viral on the Web: it got over 200,000 likes and almost 28,000 comments, in which users discussed how this could happen. According to one version, the droid simply did not want to get into other people’s business.
I read this tweet, thought long and hard… then just shrugged and walked away.#NoPlausibleAnswer https://t.co/JcMdFKjXf4 pic.twitter.com/hRVNpn2c8A
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) April 25, 2020
Later, Mark Hamill joined in the discussion and stated: «When I read this tweet, I thought for a long time. Then I just shrugged. I have nothing to say.»
In the Star Wars movies, small mechanical robots store a lot of information. Therefore, R2-D2 knew many secrets, including that Luke and Leia are siblings.
24 April 2020, 01:25 Culture »Money is a well-known part of the acting profession.
Although even among the most famous actors, not everyone can boast of records in this area. However, individual actors and actresses at least once in their lives managed to «hit the jackpot»: to receive an extremely large fee, which cost them, indeed, surprisingly little work. Is this not a dream?
Harrison Ford
A still from K-19
Katherine Bigelow’s historical drama K-19 (2002) was very expensive for several studios to invest about $100 million in it. K-19 «did not pay off at the worldwide box office (collecting only $65 million), it would be a sin to complain to Harrison Ford, who played the main role in it, since his fee was $25 million. It was not the biggest fee of Ford’s career, but still more than impressive: after all, Ford managed to shoot in just 20 days. His participation in the film cost the budget $ 1.25 million per day — so much per day of work was not paid to any other actor. Ford’s record could be even more «unbeatable» if it so happened that «K-19” would be successful at the box office, since the actor would also be entitled to 20% of the fees.
Julia Roberts
Shot from the film «Horrible Ladies» million. That’s how much the actress brought her six-minute appearance on the screen. That’s $500,000 for every minute, or $8,000 for every second of screen time. According to Julia Roberts herself, she starred in Valentine’s Day out of friendship with director Garry Marshall (he opened the way for Roberts to Hollywood by giving her the lead role in Pretty Woman).
At the same time, another film by Garry Marshall, Horrible Ladies (originally Mother’s Day, 2016), also earned Roberts a fee of $ 3 million for some 4 shooting days. As the saying goes, first you work for the status, then the status works for you (and this saying, perhaps, applies to all the heroes of this collection).
Marlon Brando
Still from Superman (1978) , he holds a personal record. In the movie «Superman» 19At the age of 78, Brando signed a contract for the role of Jor-El, which provided for a fee of almost $ 4 million and in addition 12% of the film’s box office — at that time it was an unheard of amount of money.
During filming, Brando made the producer and director pretty nervous, simply refusing to go on the set or offering his own ideas, which, to put it mildly, did not fit into the idea. When he was finally asked to appear in front of the camera, Brando did not want to memorize his text and read it from the cards. All these behind-the-scenes difficulties, however, did not interfere with the success of the film, which grossed $ 300 million at the box office. Thus, $ 19 went to Marlon Brandomillion, and all this — in less than two weeks of participation in the filming. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most expensive cameos in film history (adjusted for inflation, Brando’s fee would have been $50 million).
See also: 10 biggest fees in the history of cinema
Sean Connery
Still from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Prince of Thieves» in the memory of the audience remained Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman, but in the film about the legendary English robber there was an equally remarkable «guest star» — Sean Connery himself, who played King Richard the Lionheart.
True, King Richard, as a surprise, appears on the screen for only two minutes at the very end and says exactly four lines. For this tiny role, not even indicated in the credits, Connery was paid $ 250 thousand. The amount is gigantic, especially considering that the actor got just two days of work. This «easy money» Connery chose to donate entirely to charity.
Mark Hamill
Still from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The return of Star Wars with The Force Awakens (2015) was a big and big deal for Disney, who bought Lucasfil2m in 2012 (The film grossed over $2 billion on a budget of $200 million). However, Awakening turned out to be no less profitable for the stars of the original trilogy — Harrison Ford (his fee ranged, according to various sources, from $10 million to $20 million), Carrie Fisher (at least $1 million, the definition of «seven-figure amount» appears in the media) and Mark Hamill (also «seven figures»). However, if Ford is actually one of the central characters, Fisher also appears on the screen relatively often, then for Hamill’s 30-second cameo at the very end of the picture, the creators paid from $1 million to $1.
