"I got myself into trouble…My problem was, I wasn't dealing with social media back then, where you say something and it goes around the world in 24 hours! If I were to answer your questions on paper, I'd think: oh, that sounds a little strong, or, I shouldn't say this. But I have a tendency just to talk and talk and talk, and you can cherrypick. You know, I'll be reading something, and say, 'What moron said this?', and then realize, 'Oh, it's me.' They can take selective comments you've made out of context and use it to support their argument: 'See, Mark hated Star Wars!' 'Did I?'"
"I just thought, Luke's never going to see his best friend again," Hamill said. "I said that it was a big mistake that those three people would never reunite in any way. Luke, Han and Leia will never be together again, and I'll probably never get to work with Harrison again. Then the second thing was that they killed me off. I thought: oh, okay, you should push my death off to the last one. That's what I was hoping when I came back: no cameos and a run-of-the-trilogy contract. Did I get any of those things? Because as far as I'm concerned, the end of VII is really the beginning of VIII. I got one movie! They totally hornswoggled me."
Hamill also singles out a specific scene from The Last Jedi that he insisted director Rian Johnson change. "They had me walking by 3PO, not even acknowledging him. I said: 'I can't do that! [Rian Johnson] said, 'Okay, go over and do whatever.' So I went over, and I did whatever."
He also thinks the films have been released too quickly.
https://www.slashfilm.com/mark-hamill-star-wars-sequels/Disney CEO Bob Iger told The Hollywood Reporter last year that the schedule for Star Wars releases had been too densely packed, a view Hamill shares. 'In our day, it was three years apart. Now they're two years apart, with an independent movie (Rogue One, Solo) in between. I say to the executives at Disney, "Really? Han Solo five months after our movie? Give it a rest!" They say, well, we have to keep the schedule clear for Mary Poppins.' He feigns outrage. 'But I can be mouthy, because you know, what are they gonna do, fire me?'
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