Hey, guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks, as always, for clicking and listening along.

Man, do I have a treat for you today?

My conversation with Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, there is absolutely no need for an introduction of Mark

Hamill. You have known him for almost 50 years now, believe it or not. Yeah, the first Star Wars movie

came out in 1977. Great conversation with Mark about the process leading up to that. He was an

unknown actor at that time, walked into an audition, got called back for

another audition. Harrison Ford was in there as Han Solo, and he didn't know what to make of it.

He only had a few pages of the script. He said he couldn't tell if it was like a parody of space

movies or what are we going for here. And he said, even while they were making it with all these strange

droids making jokes and these fantastical characters, maybe it was just going to be kind of a

cult classic, like the Rocky Horror Picture Show or something. Meanwhile, it goes on to become

the biggest movie franchise ever created by man. So we talk about what it was like to be Luke Skywalker in those moments for those first

three movies and really for the next 50 years, what it's like to always be Luke Skywalker

and kind of pushing that away at first after the Star Wars movies before fully embracing it,

especially in one moment backstage at one of his Broadway shows with Carrie Fisher,

who said, dude, just embrace it.

You're Luke Skywalker.

I'm Princess Leia.

Great story for a man who's full of great stories and now is starring in a new movie called

The Life of Chuck based on a novella, a short story, really, from Stephen King.

Now, I say Stephen King, you think it's going to be horror or some kind of a psychological thriller. It's not. It's a really

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