But the Luke Skywalker actor says he sympathises with film bosses, who are just trying to keep surprises.
Mark Hamill kicked off 'Star Wars Celebration Europe' at London’s ExCel Centre on Friday (July 15) taking questions from fans and revealing what he could about the franchise. The actor of course couldn't give anything away about the next instalment, but he did confess that even he finds the secrecy surrounding the films “annoying and intrusive” sometimes.
Mark Hamill attended Star Wars Celebration Europe in London on Friday.
“It can be really annoying and intrusive,” he said. “You get call sheets [on set] and everybody’s got a number. You look at the call sheet and you’re like ‘I love 22’s work, she’s twice as good as 11’. They’re not doing it to annoy you.”
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“It’s just they want the surprise to be in the movie theatres, not on the internet. That’s what it is. You don’t want to know what you’re getting for your birthday. I understand why they’re doing it but it can get really out of control with the pages that get shredded every day.”
“I’m in the elderly recluse phase of my career – I need old school, I need a script that you can write on, that you can take home and read,” Hamill added. One of The Force Awakens’ big surprises was that Luke Skywalker would only appear at the end of the film, something that not even he knew in advance.
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“I thought it was a really great surprise, but I don’t think they prepared me correctly,” he added. “I went to training and lost all this weight so I thought I must be doing something physical if they’re sending me to the gym twice a week. They could have prepared me a little better. All that workout where you lost weight...You’re going to have to turn and remove your hood.”
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