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Mark Hamill: Leia, Luke and Han Deserved to Have A Scene Together in ‘The Force Awakens'

April 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Mark Hamill is an automatic go-to for World of Reel. Whenever the guy opens his mouth we tend to cover the outrageously honest stuff he says. Interviewed during the THR podcast, complained that he didn’t like how he was introduced in the "The Force Awakens” and how he was, eventually, killed in “The Last Jedi.”

Hamill’s Luke Skywalker doesn’t show up until the very final scene of “The Force Awakens.” However, Hamill hated that intro so much that he he even pitched his idea for a story that would have fixed a “missed opportunity.”

“Everyone talks about the shock of realizing that on ‘Force Awakens’ I don’t come in until the last page,” he said (via Comicbook). “A bigger shock to me was them killing Han Solo before Luke could ever see his best friend again.”

He added, “I mean, it might be selfishly motivated, but I said, ‘Holy cow, that’s a real missed opportunity.’ Even having the three of us together, even briefly. I pitched [J.J.] Abrams on the idea of, ‘You can still have me come in at the very end, but how about this. How about Leia’s trying to contact me telepathically, she gets frustrated because there’s no answers, so she rushes to the new Death Star’–that’s three, so far.”

“And she almost gets there but she gets stopped by two Stormtroopers, and just before she’s abducted, one Stormtrooper turns to the other one, blows him away, pulls off his helmet and says, ‘Hi, sis, I’m here to rescue you.’ I say, ‘It’ll blow the roof off the joint, I’m still in it at the very end,’” Hamill continued.

“I think it’s more effective to have people that really have a history with Han Solo witness his death and be unable to stop it,” the actor said. “His wife, the mother of his child, his best friend, instead of two characters that have known him, what, 20 minutes? But they get the keys to the kingdom, and they’re the deciders, so you just have to live with it.”

Tags Mark Hamill, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker, Leia, Han Solo
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