Mark Hamill, or better known around this part of the galaxy as Luke Skywalker, has always been pretty vocal about things in the
Star Wars franchise he didn't always agree with. This past weekend, the actor revealed one scene in particular from
The Empire Strikes Back that still angers him to this day.
The revelation came in response to a fan tweet celebration National Cake Day with a cake resembling a severed wampa arm. The scene comes at the start of The Empire Strikes Back with Luke - trudging through the snow on the ice planet of Hoth - is captured by the yeti-like wampa. Not keen on becoming the beast's next meal, Luke grabs his lightsaber from the snow using the Force and lops off one of the wampa's arms. It's a pretty iconic scene that is presumably included to showcase how far Luke has come with his training in the Force, as he's able to pull his lightsaber from the snow using his mind. Nevertheless, it upsets Mark Hamill who claims he was reassured the lightsaber strike would only graze the wampa's fur and scare it off, not chop off its arm.
Now Mark Hamill is also known for his sense of humor, so when asked if he was being sarcastic or not, the actor responded, "serious."
He even defend his stance to quite a few responders. When one fan brought up the difference in the book, where Luke uses to Force on the Wampa's mind, Hamill responded, "My acting was much better in the book."
Hamill was also challenged by one fan bringing up Ben Kenobi when he cut off the alien's arm inside the Mos Eisley Cantina. The actor responded with a brilliant pun: "Excessive force."
Determined to prove the actor wrong, another fan brought up the character's penchant for bullseye-ing womp rats in his T-16 back home. Hamill's defense?
Though fans will presumably persist in trying to convince Mark Hamill he's wrong in his own opinion of the character he portrays on screen, he seems pretty set in his beliefs that slicing off the wampa's arm is not something Luke Skywalker would do.
What do you think? Here's the clip to refresh your memory.
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