Mark Hamill Nearly Retired After The Star Wars Sequels But This “Scary” Role Stopped Him
Luke has been a published author since the age of ten, when a poem he wrote was selected for an anthology of children’s literature, and a professional entertainment writer and critic since 1999. Born in the U.S., he grew up overseas and attended film school at the University of Southern California. He is a veteran […] With all the debates over The Last Jedi, and flat-out hate for The Rise of Skywalker, it’s easy to imagine Mark Hamill feeling like enough was enough. He never truly stopped doing voice acting — by providing the pipes of Skeletor for Netflix, he tied with Jared Leto as the only actor to play both the Masters of the Universe villain and the Joker — but in a new interview with Esquire, he reveals that he considered quietly slipping away from acting once his Star Wars trilogy deal was done. Then fate, and a high-profile fan, intervened. Mike Flanagan made him an offer he…
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