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At the premiere for 'The Life of Chuck,' Mark Hamill chats with THR on the carpet and dishes on transforming into his character and reveals why he thinks the film is coming out at the perfect time. Plus, he reveals why he decided to step away from the 'Star Wars' universe.

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00:00I saw the movie and at first I didn't realize it was you with the glasses and

00:04the mustache. How did the physical traits inform your portrayal of the character?

00:08You have to always credit wardrobe and makeup and hair because as they show you

00:14various pants and shirts and coats and stuff you start they help you discover

00:19the character and I knew I wanted to white out my hair and I grew my mustache

00:24bushy and I said well it's got a lot of gray in it but wipe that out and it

00:28wasn't until I put on the glasses where I said oh my god I'm Geppetto. It was a

00:34shock but it was too late to go back and Tom Hanks already got that part so that

00:39ship has sailed. That's pretty impressive though that was your real mustache?

00:42Yeah yeah and and my real hair so I love when you look in the mirror and you

00:50don't see yourself anymore you see the character that's when you know you're

00:54getting close. It's such a hopeful and inspiring film and it's coming out at a

00:59time when it can sometimes feel like the world is actually ending. It's perfect

01:04timing because we're so divided there's such anger and division in this country

01:09and this film is it's positively therapeutic I think. I certainly felt so

01:18much better about everything after seeing it so I hope I hope the word of mouth is

01:23strong because like I say you can't really say well it's about this and

01:28describe it in a in a way you usually would. The movie first premiered at TIFF

01:35over nine or almost nine months ago how does it feel that people finally get to

01:39see it in theaters? Was it that long ago? Oh my gosh. Well that was a revelation

01:44because I never I'd seen it once at Mike's house and it was just my wife and

01:49me and Mike and to see it with a full audience was just astonishing. They were

01:54with us from the get-go they laughed in all the right places there was scattered

01:59applause and when the lights came up at the end there were people with tears in

02:03their eyes. It was really powerful because you never know how people are

02:07going to perceive it. I hope there's I think it's going to have strong word of

02:11mouth fingers crossed. It's a tear-jerker do you would you suggest that people

02:16bring tissues and come prepared? Yeah well unexpectedly so I I don't know that

02:24they they're gonna use their sleeves. And Nick Offerman's voiceover plays such an

02:31important role in the film if you had to pick a celebrity to voiceover a movie

02:35about your life who would it be? Well Nick Offerman does such a great job. I just

02:41saw him oh in the credits to the Oscars it said announcer Nick Offerman. So he's

02:47working all the time and the voiceover community has been a godsend to me. I

02:53love them all. They're so comfortable in their own skin. They're so talented.

03:00there's no kind of there's not the kind of competition and rivalry and I'm just

03:07astonished at how talented they are because they come out of the world of

03:11stand-up and improv groundlings and Second City. I've been at sessions that

03:18where I've laughed so hard I feel like I owe them a cover charge. It's that

03:22entertaining. And you recently said that you're stepping away from the Star Wars

03:26universe. You've had your time in it. What went into making that decision?

03:29Well it's just natural. I mean one era ended and a whole new era began. In fact

03:36they've produced more original content since I finished then in all six films

03:43that I was in. But and it's great stuff. I mean I loved Rogue One and

03:50Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett. My son said dad you gotta watch Andor. So

03:55that's on my to-do list.

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