Mark Hamill Shares His Unpopular Star Wars Opinion

Mark Hamill shares his unpopular Star Wars opinion. The actor is most well known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, though his extensive voice acting work is underappreciated. Hamill’s role as Skywalker became more relevant in the last decade when JJ Abrams launched the final trilogy that centered on finding the legendary Jedi. Hamill reprised the role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where Skywalker dies from using a Force projection across the galaxy. Skywalker’s death in The Last Jedi still has a lot of fans scratching their heads.

The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett also credit Hamill for his CGI-aided appearances as a younger Jedi Master Skywalker trying to train Grogu, aka Baby Yoda. With the upcoming release of the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, we will see Skywalker as a child. Hamill recently gave the young actor Grant Feely a warm welcome to the role. Some favorites from Hamill’s long list of other works include voicing The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Muska in the English dub of Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky, and Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

In a recent Twitter response, Mark Hamill shares his unpopular Star Wars opinion. The account Star Wars Stuff asks everyone to share their unpopular Star Wars opinion, and Hamill’s response is, “The Star Wars Holiday Special was under appreciated.” For most of the years since, the special was largely unpopular, though that might be starting to change. This reply by Hamill is the latest in his relatively active Twitter account. He also recently discovered on Twitter that James Gunn was filming a holiday special for Guardians of the Galaxy and that they’re neighbors. See Hamill’s reply below.

If Gunn and Hamill met up as they said they would on Twitter, Gunn probably gushed about his well-known love for the Star Wars: Holiday Special, despite its many ridiculous qualities, including full musical numbers and wacky, low-budget comedic elements. So much modern content, including Gunn’s, uses precisely those things to significant effect, so it’s no surprise that he loved the infamous Star Wars production. He brought Hamill around on his viewpoint, or maybe Hamill always secretly loved the holiday special.

The Star Wars: Holiday Special came out in 1978. Hamill had just recovered from a terrible car crash where he had suffered extensive injuries. The wounds from his many reconstructive surgeries had supposedly not healed by the time they began filming the special, so Hamill was given makeup to hide the bruising. This was after the release of the first Star Wars movie in 1977, and before The Empire Strikes Back, so the ideas and direction of George Lucas’ franchise were still new and less formed. Lucas came to regret the special, and the general view was that it missed the mark. However, the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special might convince even more fans that it was just underappreciated.

Source: Mark Hamill / Twitter

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