Remarkably few of us experience life like Mark Hamill does. By this, we mean an existence informed by a recurring role in a handful of films that, for millions of people around the world, has frozen him in time and space – deep, deep space.
His life is informed but not shaped by having played Luke Skywalker — informed, but not formed around. That’s the difference between Hamill and other actors seen by the public as a fictional persona they played decades ago – or worse, those performers who resent that double-edged sword.
