Enter for a chance to join Mark Hamill for dinner and the ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ premiere (via Omaze)
There is no length Disney won’t go to promote Star Wars, including making Mark Hamill watch his own cringe-inducing audition tape.
As part of a fundraising campaign, the actor enjoyed a personal viewing of the 40-something-year-old video.
“It wasn’t easy for me to watch this,” he tweeted on Tuesday. “But I suffered through it just for you.”
And for the USC McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI)—an organization designed to help prepare underprivileged students for admission to college.
Fans can enter online for the chance to score two tickets to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker premiere in Los Angeles and dinner with Luke Skywalker himself.
“The best part of all is that every donation benefits NAI,” Hamill said in the video. “So hurry up, go to omaze.com/mark, donate, and may the force be with you.”
Hamill earned his big break in George Lucas’s Star Wars franchise, for which he has reprised his Jedi role five times (including The Rise of Skywalker).
It wasn’t easy for me to watch this, (“WHO TALKS LIKE THIS?!”
) but I suffered through it just for you, because it IS a great charity. Love that #omaze kindly provided subtitles, so you don’t miss a single moronic comment. Will I be seeing YOU at dinner? #DiningWithMasterHamster https://t.co/B9cytx12lD
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 5, 2019
A mere 25 when the film was released, the now-68-year-old looked back on his humble beginnings with laughter and sneers.
“I’m not sure I’m ready for this,” he said, before letting nostalgia wash over him like the wave of Yoda’s wrinkled hand.
He goes on to reveal that this audition was the first time he met Harrison Ford—”the personification of cool”—and that his own “Beatle-esque” haircut was the “biggest thing I contributed to the look of Luke Skywalker.”
In the five-minute video, Hamill confesses to all sorts of behind-the-scenes hijinks, from nitpicking about how to pronounce the name of a Wookie to Carrie Fisher’s “effortlessly feminist” Princess Leia, who made Han and Luke “look like chumps.”
“We just had so much fun, running around the Death Star, being trapped in the trash compactor,” he reminisced. “There wasn’t a day that we didn’t laugh, a lot.”
Now it’s your turn to relive four decades of robots droids, lightsabers, nerfherders, stormtroopers, and whatever else Mark Hamill can remember—all for a good cause.
Enter now for a chance to win.
Increase your odds of attending The Rise of Skywalker premiere by donating to Omaze’s other themed contests, featuring Adam Driver (Kylo Ren) and Daisy Ridley (Rey).
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