Key Takeaways
- Billie Lourd is honoring her late mother, Carrie Fisher, on ‘Star Wars’ Day.
- Harrison Ford expressed surprise at his emotional return to the franchise.
- Mark Hamill acknowledges the profound impact of the ‘Star Wars’ saga on fans.
- The legacy of ‘Star Wars’ continues to shape the careers of its stars.
You say you love checking in with the cast of Star Wars?
We know.
Not always onboard with the sentiment, however, was Harrison Ford, who admittedly tried to put a lot of mileage between himself and Han Solo after Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi closed out the initial trilogy in 1983.
Hence his own surprise to be so moved by his experience returning to a galaxy far, far away for 2015’s The Force Awakens.
“I never thought it would come back to bless me rather than haunt me,” Ford admitted at San Diego Comic-Con at the time, adding, “The original Star Wars that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.”
But while a few (dozen) other projects may be jockeying for prime position in the 84-year-old’s screen legacy, Mark Hamill knows where his celebrity Force lies.
“I’ll never get used to the fan reaction,” he told Parade in 2017, when he returned as Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. Noting he’d just been to New York Comic-Con, Hamill explained, “It’s so ingrained in their life experience; they’re transformed by it. Some of them are just vibrating because they’re so excited.”
