Mark Hamill lately appeared on the “Bullseye with Jesse Thorn” podcast (through IGN) to advertise his newest film, Mike Flanagan’s “The Lifetime of Chuck,” and cleared up a few of the confusion surrounding his ideas on Rian Johnson‘s divisive “Star Wars” film “The Final Jedi.” Hamill returned as Luke Skywalker within the movie, though he was not the hero some followers remembered. This Luke was a depressing, hardened recluse residing in self-imposed exile after his protege, Ben Solo, joined the darkish aspect and have become Kylo Ren. Luke blamed himself.

In interviews after “The Final Jedi” opened in theaters, Hamill was trustworthy about not loving this route Johnson took along with his character. He advised Comedian E book on the time that he “nonetheless hasn’t accepted” what occurred to Luke and opposed such a darkish heel flip. However within the new podcast interview, Hamill pressured that Johnson made “an amazing film” with “The Final Jedi,” including: “I’d like to clear this up. … Rian Johnson is likely one of the most gifted administrators I’ve ever labored with.”

“The truth that I went public with my dissatisfaction with the motivation for Luke turning into a suicidal hermit might need coloured issues in a manner that, possibly I ought to have saved that to myself,” Hamill admitted. “However I saved saying to Rian, ‘This could simply make Luke double down even…’ and he mentioned, ‘Properly, your class on the Jedi Academy have been worn out.’ I mentioned, ‘Rian, I noticed complete planets worn out! If something, Luke doubles down and hardens his resolve within the face of adversity.’ In order that’s all.”

Hamill believed Luke would grow to be much more of a hero and an advocate for the Jedi within the wake of Ben Solo’s betrayal. To be able to go in the exact opposite route that Johnson scripted, Hamill wanted to persuade himself that Luke was attainable of such darkness.

“I mentioned, ‘Can I make up my very own backstory of why he’s the best way he’s? I don’t need to simply say that I’ve bumped my head and I’ve mind injury,’” Hamill mentioned. [Rian] mentioned, ‘Yeah, do no matter you need.’ So I made up a a lot, a lot darker backstory that I believed might justify him being that manner.”

“I believed, ‘What might make somebody quit a devotion to what’s principally a spiritual entity, to surrender being a Jedi?’” Hamill then defined. “Properly, the love of a girl. So he falls in love with a girl. He provides up being a Jedi. They’ve a baby collectively. In some unspecified time in the future the kid, as a toddler, picks up an unattended lightsaber, pushes the button and is killed immediately. The spouse is so stuffed with grief, she kills herself. I believed, that might be. … As a result of I hear these horrible tales about these kids who discover unattended weapons and wind up lifeless. That resonated with me so deeply. … However [Rian] didn’t have the time to inform a backstory like that, I’m guessing. He simply needed a quick factor to elucidate it. And to me, it didn’t justify it.”

“That mentioned — and I advised [Rian] this — even supposing I disagree along with your decisions for Luke, I’m going to do the whole lot inside my energy to make your screenplay work as finest as I can,” Hamill added. “And the one factor unlucky about that’s, I’ve heard feedback from followers who assume that I someway dislike Rian Johnson, and nothing could possibly be farther from the reality.”

Luke died in “The Final Jedi,” though Hamill continued with the “Star Wars” franchise by showing as a Power Ghost in “The Rise of Skywalker” after which utilizing de-aging know-how to seem as a younger Luke within the collection “The Mandalorian” and “The E book of Boba Fett.” Hamill advised Comedian E book earlier this yr he has no plans to return as Luke.

“I had my time,” Hamill mentioned. “I’m appreciative of that, however I believe they need to give attention to the longer term and all the brand new characters.”

Hearken to Hamill’s full interview on the “Bullseye with Jesse Thorn” podcast right here.