THE MANDALORIAN: That Wasn't Actually Mark Hamill's Real Voice In The Season 2 Finale

THE MANDALORIAN: That Wasn't Actually Mark Hamill's Real Voice In The Season 2 Finale

De-ageing technology was used to make Mark Hamill look like a young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian's season 2 finale, but the voice we heard wasn't actually the actor's real one. This is crazy!

By Nighthawk01 - Aug 26, 2021 03:08 AM EST
Filed Under: The Mandalorian

If you're a Star Wars fan, chances are you'll never forget the return of Luke Skywalker in the closing moments of The Mandalorian season 2. Unlike the dejected Jedi Master we met in the Star Wars sequels, this version of the Jedi Knight was exactly what fans had hoped for post-Return of the Jedi

Yesterday, Disney+ dropped an episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian exploring how Mark Hamill reprised his most famous role. Much was said about the work that went into de-ageing him for this return, but the biggest surprise came when executive producer and writer Jon Favreau revealed that the voice we heard come from Luke wasn't really Hamill's. 

"Something people didn't realize is that his voice isn't real," he confirmed. "His voice, the young Luke Skywalker voice, is completely synthesized using an application called Respeecher."

Sound editor Matthew Wood adds, "It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns. So I had archival material from Mark in that era. We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he'd done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data."

Hamill's voice has obviously changed since he played Luke in 1983, and it's fascinating to learn about the sort of work that went into recreating a version that would line up with this part of his life. You'd think it would be as simple as making some changes to the actor's existing voice, but the technology Lucasfilm is playing with these days is beyond imagination. 

We'd strongly recommend watching the full documentary on Disney+ as there are lots of reveals, though the biggest might be how Plo Koon was used to protect Luke's role in The Mandalorian finale!

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Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 8/26/2021, 3:38 AM
If only they had put that much time and care into how he looked
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 8/26/2021, 7:10 AM
@Twenty23Three - Deepfake tech is only getting better though. Some of the stuff even Youtubers are able to do with it are incredible.

In 10-20 years nobody will be able to tell the difference without testing/examining the footage.
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 8/26/2021, 7:12 AM
@Nightwing1015 - oh I know. It’s already pretty good if find right. Hence why I was so disappointed with Luke at the end of Mandolorian
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 8/26/2021, 7:13 AM
@Twenty23Three - Yeah it certainly could've been better. But now that they seem to be hiring Youtubers, I'm confident it'll be much better when these legacy characters next appear!
Himura
Himura - 8/26/2021, 10:28 AM
@Twenty23Three - If you watched the doc, you'd know they did
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 8/26/2021, 3:48 AM
So he was completely deepfaked. Atleast they got Hamill for reference
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/26/2021, 4:18 AM
Epic had no [frick]ing clue. Also Ruby, marry me? I have no qualms with your penis
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 8/26/2021, 6:15 AM
@McMurdo - "I have no qualms with your penis" is the type of line that if it were in the right movie, people would be quoting it left and right.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/26/2021, 11:10 AM
@Waddles - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/26/2021, 11:11 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - hahaha facts 😄
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/26/2021, 4:29 AM
I watched it, and it was an awesome behind the scenes look. To hear them talk about Luke, and the fans with such reverence really makes me feel good. Yeah, fans can be idiots, and many claim fake rumors, and fan the flames of beef to get people to come to their crappy channels. Even some at Lucasfilm got into the mudslinging. The whole thing was a mess.
tylerzero
tylerzero - 8/26/2021, 4:39 AM
Re: the voice, I absolutely loved that attention to detail.

I never understood why they never did that to de-aged actors. Examples that immediately come to mind are Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy and Michael Douglas in Ant-Man and the Wasp and Endgame.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/26/2021, 4:52 AM
@tylerzero - Speaking of Tron Legacy (Underrated film imo) The Deepfake of Jeff Bridges is miles above the original. The same guy who deepfaked that, also deepfaked Luke, Han, and Leia. Disney was so impressed they straight up hired him.


Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 8/26/2021, 5:05 AM
I didn’t realise people thought it was his real voice?
BB8ANG
BB8ANG - 8/26/2021, 6:51 AM
@Tasmaniac - I thought they recorded Hamill's voice and pitched it up in post. Never would have guessed it was completely synthetic.
TheShape9859
TheShape9859 - 8/26/2021, 6:03 AM
I mean I never thought it was his real voice seeing as how he sounds so different now from then...
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 8/26/2021, 7:04 AM
Obviously. He sounded like a robot. And it looks like that's because he really was voiced by a robot lol.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 8/26/2021, 7:08 AM
And here I was thinking that Mark was just a really good voice actor lol.

Really hope they keep doing this, basically means that as tech improves, we could have Luke in movies/TV shows for a long time.
Himura
Himura - 8/26/2021, 10:28 AM
Yall are really gonna try to stretch out one documentary into as many articles as possible arent you
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