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Graham Hamilton, the physical actor behind Luke Skywalker in The Book of Boba Fett, discusses his role in the Disney+ Star Wars series.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett’s sixth episode, “Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” streaming now on Disney+.
Graham Hamilton, the physical actor behind Luke Skywalker in Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett, has opened up about helping to bring a young version of the beloved Jedi Master back to life.
Hamilton shared a number of stills of Luke from The Book of Boba Fett‘s latest episode, “Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” in a post to Instagram. “What can I say,” he wrote. “Co-creating [Luke Skywalker] for [The Book of Boba Fett] with master [Mark Hamill] was one of the most magical and fulfilling creative experiences of my life. Deep gratitude to [Dave Filoni] and [Jon Favreau] for bringing me into the family and to all the geniuses [at Star Wars and Lucasfilm] who remind us of the power of myth, and the deep responsibility of artists who bring these archetypes to life. It’s hard to express what this all meant for me, how unimaginably moving it was and still is.”
Hamilton went on to list some of the highlights of working on The Book of Boba Fett, including (but not limited to) “playing everyday [with Grogu],” “geeking out [with Rosario Dawson],” “listening to all of Mark’s incredible stories,” the “Grogu fist-bump that made the final cut” and, last but not least, “becoming a Jedi.”
The aforementioned Mark Hamill portrayed Luke Skywalker in all three films in the original Star Wars trilogy from 1977 to 1983. Luke later appeared as an infant in 2005’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, played by Aidan Barton (son of Roger Barton, the film’s editor). Hamill eventually reprised his role as Luke in live-action in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Hamill took on a larger role in 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in which the character of Luke met his end, though the actor returned once more to play a Force Ghost version of Luke in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
The Rise of Skywalker also began the trend of Star Wars bringing back young Luke by digitally applying Mark Hamill’s face onto a body double. In the 2019 film, Luke’s body double was actor Lukaz Leong. Young Luke later appeared in the Season 2 finale of Disney+’s The Mandalorian in 2020, with Hamill providing the character’s voice and actor Max Lloyd-Jones now serving as the body double.
The Book of Boba Fett‘s sixth episode saw Hamilton take over as the body double. However, while Lloyd-Jones was not the physical actor behind young Luke this time around, the actor did appear in The Book of Boba Fett‘s fifth episode, “Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian,” in which he portrayed a New Republic X-wing pilot named Reed.
The Book of Boba Fett Episode 6 left fans elated by not only featuring return of Luke, but also the return of Grogu, Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant), not to mention the live-action debut of Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ Cad Bane (played by Dorian Kingi, voiced by Corey Burton).
The seventh and final episode of The Book of Boba Fett debuts Wednesday, Feb. 9 on Disney+.
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