Mark Hamill nearly lost his life in between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and George Lucas had to get creative.
When the George Lucas science fiction epic Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope took the world by storm in 1977, it starred a relatively unknown Mark Hamill in the lead role of a young Luke Skywalker. Hamill may not have been the established performer and voice actor that he is now with credits including Batman: The Killing Joke, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and Mike Flanagan's Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher, but he certainly looked the part.
So when he was chosen to harness The Force and set about on a crash course to go tête-à-tête with the evil Darth Vader, Hamill had truly cashed in on his beach boy camera-friendly features. So much so that audiences were even willing to overlook his less-than-Stanislovskian method of acting as he tried to keep up with a legend in Sir Alec Guinness and the more polished Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
Mark Hamill Got In a Serious Accident After 'A New Hope' Mark Hamill has always been very candid about what happened to cause the near-death experience that contributed to the noticeable change in his appearance between the two films. In 1978, he told Gossip Magazine, “What happened was that I was on the wrong freeway. I was way out in the sticks somewhere and there were no cars and no traffic, thank God.
George Lucas Had To Get Creative on Set of ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Hamill also stated in The Gossip interview that he was supposed to be on set the next day for some post-pick-up shots. Lucas used a double and none of the shots showed young Skywalker's face.
Was Mark Hamill Almost Recast for 'Empire Strikes Back'? Lucas never considered recasting the relatively unknown Hamill, and it is believed that he started taking measures immediately to keep him on board for the sequel. There are a couple of rumors still floating around whether Lucas, along with co-writer Lawrence Kasdan added a scene at the very beginning of The Empire Strikes Back to explain away the golden boy's post-accident surgery and scarring.
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