The Star Wars actor is hiding in plain sight in the very first scene, a prologue to the episode that focuses on a phony-baloney fortune teller named Damon Nostra (a.k.a. Greg McMurray), who claims to have the power to hear the dead. A grisly scene then plays out as a tearful young woman sits down at his séance table and reveals she can do the same.
Or, rather, she can actually do it—and it’s driving her to bloody madness. Think of it as Hamill dressing up for Halloween. I recognize his voice,’ or whatever.
And we just wouldn't comment on it. I love stuff like that.” Being unmasked like the foiled villain in a Scooby-Doo episode is “no big deal,” Hamill says. He’s happy to be associated with the show, developed for TV by his now-frequent collaborator Flanagan.
Then you see why, because when he can expand, he can tell you so much more about the friends at school . . . I mean, he just has the luxury of eight hours to tell this story.” You’d need about the same length of time to walk through all of Hamill’s memorable performances, but this time we decided only to focus on the especially strange ones: the monsters, outcasts and weirdos he has brought to life in tales of the otherworldly and supernatural. It goes back a long way, to when he was just a little kid.
He didn’t realize it at the time, but his destiny as a performer was beginning to take shape—prompted by his dummy. I didn't really have an act. I was winging it,” Hamill says.
I thought, wow, maybe I could be a stand-up comedian.” Instead, he just became a leading man, the epitome of the hero’s journey as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars films. Years later, he pivoted to voice acting, becoming the epitome of evil as the Joker in various Batman cartoons. The roles Hamill seems to savor the most are everything in between, the colorful supporting parts and character pieces that subsume who he is and present an entirely different person.
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