In a new interview, Mark Hamill has talked more about his disappointment with the Star Wars franchise after The Last Jedi killed off his character and completely closed the door on Luke Skywalker being reunited with old friends Han Solo and Leia Organa (which actually became an impossibility after Han's death in The Force Awakens and then Carrie Fisher's real-life demise).
After making it clear that he doesn't want fans to weaponise his comments against the filmmakers by jumping to the conclusion that he hates the new trilogy, Hamill weighed in on one moment, in particular, which he believes proves his point.
"They had me walking by Threepio, not even acknowledging him," he explains. "I said: ‘I can’t do that!’ [Rian Johnson] said: ‘okay, go over and do whatever’. So I went over, and I did whatever. They say in the script ‘forget the past, kill it if you have to’, and they’re doing a pretty good job."
As for Luke never being given the opportunity to reunite with Han, he added: "I just thought, Luke’s never going to see his best friend again. You look at it in a self-centred way. I said that it was a big mistake that those three people would never reunite in any way. I guess I was wrong, because nobody seems to care."
Hamill's comments reflect what many fans have said and it's easy to understand his frustrations.
Whether this is an indication that he's also unhappy with the way Luke has been handled in Star Wars Episode IX is hard to say but no matter how good these new movies may be or how successful they've been at the box office, it seems like many fans will forever be left disappointed with how things played out. Like Hamill, they wanted a reunion which we'll now never see...
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