I wish he had become a bigger star it seems Star wars both made a broke his career.
Lose the Game!!!!!!!
If it wasn't for the car crash after part one, he wouldn't have gone through with what Jennifer Grey went through.
shareI know what you mean, but he will always be Luke Skywalker, fine enough.
shareI wonder if Mark Hamill was simply severely typecast as Luke Skywalker. What I mean by that is that producers thought that he couldn't really act beyond playing a "goody two shoes" hero like Luke. He pretty much had to completely reinvent himself through voice acting.
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It wasn't Star Wars that ruined his career. He did.
After Star Wars, he starred in two movies which bombed that killed his career: Corvette Summer; The Big Red One
Meanwhile, Harrison Ford starred in movies which became huge hits. His career flourished.
Unfortunately Hamill had that horrible accident in his corvette in which 90% of his face got ripped off along with 1st degree burns over half his body. Can't act after that trauma.
shareHis accident wasn't *that* bad, but it was quite bad and underplayed in the media.
He still had more or less a similar good looking face after his accident, so he got lucky.
I've seen pretty much all of Mark's films. Corvette Summer and The Big Red One are the biggest standouts by far.
Mark has fallen victim to the movie going public's belief that if an actor doesn't star in a constant string of hit movies, then they're a failure and bad actor. What they don't understand is that only a handful of very lucky actors can stay at the top for the duration of their career (like Mark's costar Harrison).
What matters with actors is not how many blockbusters they've been in, what matters is whether they have talent or not, are they warm & likeable, and what they can give to a film by their presence, and Mark is all those things. I've sat through some really shit movies just because he's in it. The guy's a great actor.
Bad luck and typecasting. He was the star of the stage production of Amadeus. If he had starred in the film version of Amadeus (Best Picture winner) his whole career would've been very different. The director Milos Forman flat out refused to consider him, saying (according to Hamill) "How can you play Mozart, you're Luke Skywalker?".
shareGood thing amadeus was terrible.
I imagine the same thing happened to guys like Christopher Reeve. When actors embody a certain iconic role, it must be hard for them to be seen as anything else.
he was always too whiney and dorky to be a real leading man,
but perfect for the whiney, dorky Luke Skywalker