Mark Hamill on Star Wars, life as Luke Skywalker, and Carrie Fisher

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

He’s best known as Luke Skywalker, but who was Mark Hamill before he picked up the lightsaber? The Star Wars legend joins James O’Brien for a very special interview, exploring his early love for show business, being cast by George Lucas in the first Star Wars movie, the wild space ride that he, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were all launched on, and passing the torch to a new generation of heroes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered which features a guest I am almost too
0:16.7	excited to tell you I'll give you a clue the last Jedi is out on DVD on April the 9th and my
0:22.3	guest this week on unfiltered.
0:24.0	Wait for it is Mark Hammel.
0:27.0	I think probably more than any of the other times I've ever said this my guest
0:38.2	needs no introduction. Mark Hamel hello. Can I begin by asking when people meet you for the first time whether anyone's ever mean?
0:45.6	Because I was running through my choices of greeting from Wow to a huge fan to sort of pant wettingly
0:52.0	excited to all of those things.
0:55.0	Do you ever get greeted normally?
0:58.0	Do you ever have people meeting for the first time who just greet you like a...
1:01.0	Yeah, they do.
1:02.0	They do.
1:02.6	One thing you have to get used to over the years, people say, gee, you're so much taller in the movie.
1:08.0	And you sort of get self-conscious about your size.
1:12.0	I remember it was on a set and Clint Eastwood came on because he was a friend of one of the actors and I kept it in the thought bubble but I thought he's not as big as I thought he was and then I realize we're seeing this man
1:25.3	Billboard size so even though he's easily six two I don't know I expected him to be 30 foot tall
1:32.1	Yes, I will just have to get used to it.
1:34.0	It's quite big.
1:35.0	East.
1:36.0	In terms of what you carry around with you,
1:40.0	it's, there's a Joseph Heller story, I don't know if you ever heard it.
1:43.6	Someone came out to Judge 22.
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