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Mark Hamill & Frank Oz

Watch The Mark Hamill & Frank Oz Conversation Live Tonight At 8

Posted by Dustin on March 23, 2018 at 05:17 PM CST


From Vanity Fair:





Between Mark Hamill and Frank Oz, there are likely hundreds of untold Star Wars stories. Hamill, as any good Padawan knows, plays Luke Skywalker in the galactic franchise, a member of the old guard who found a poetic end in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Oz is the puppeteer and voice behind Yoda, the tiny and wise Jedi master with a penchant for scrambled dialogue. The duo have long been one of the film world’s favorite odd couples; they got to reunite one last time on screen in The Last Jedi, when Yoda appeared to Skywalker as a Force ghost, dispensing a few final words of wisdom. And on Friday, Hamill and Oz will come together in the real world for a talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, dishing on all things Star Wars (and maybe also dispensing a little wisdom; who knows!).

Luckily for all of us, the talk, which kicks off at 8 P.M. Eastern, will be live-streamed. (You can watch it in the video embedded above.) The two will have plenty to talk about, primarily that Last Jedi reunion—which, as Oz previously explained, was director Rian Johnson’s idea. “Several years ago, I had lunch with Rian, and Rian asked if I could do Yoda in the next Star Wars, and I said ‘Sure,’ because I thought it was just C.G.I.,” Oz told IGN. “And then [Lucasfilm president] Kathy Kennedy, who I’ve known for quite a while, who’s fantastic, she called me about it and then I realized that it wasn’t C.G.I., that it was actually the character.”

Oz then had to fire up his muscle memory, so to speak, and get back into the Yoda mindset. “If a character is transcendent and lives and breathes, then he’s inside me. It takes a long time to get there, but I’ve done him a long time,” he said.

Hamill and Oz will likely also take a trip down memory lane, reflecting on the last 40 years of Star Wars lore and history. You can put your money on the erstwhile Luke Skywalker finding new ways to praise The Last Jedi, which is available on Blu-ray on March 27. The actor spent much of his most recent Star Wars press tour expressing his surprise at Johnson’s grumpy interpretation of his legendary character, explaining that he wasn’t a fan of the script when he first read it. However, Hamill slowly changed his tune, especially after the film began dividing hardcore fans.

“I regret voicing my doubts & insecurities in public,” Hamill tweeted last December. “Creative differences are a common element of any project but usually remain private. All I wanted was to make good movie. I got more than that- @rianjohnson made an all-time GREAT one!”

Luke Skywalker loves The Last Jedi—and that’s canon forever.


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