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- **Posted:** 2025-06-03T16:07:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** L.A. Times Entertainment (@latimes_entertainment) — https://gondola.cc/latimes_entertainment

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Mark Hamill was at a point in his life where he felt ready to trade the Force for a pool float and a quiet crossword in the shade.

After five decades as the face of one of pop culture’s most enduring myths, Hamill had found a comfortable corner of the galaxy to call his own. He had a home he cherished, a family that kept him grounded and no pressing need to be in front of a camera again.

“I said, ‘This is perfect — they killed me off,’” Hamill says with a shrug on a warm May afternoon in L.A., referring to Luke Skywalker’s death in #TheLastJedi. “If you lose the fire in your belly, it’s easy to just hang around the pool all day, playing Yahtzee or whatever. I don’t want to be on camera at my age anymore. The only ones who complain are my agent and my wife.”

That was the plan, anyway — until the world caught fire.

The 73-year-old actor’s Malibu home — the one he bought with his #StarWars money in 1978, where he married his wife, Marilou, in the backyard and raised their three kids — remains uninhabitable after the January fires that tore through large swaths of the city, destroying most of his neighborhood. Hamill and his wife evacuated the Palisades fire as flames sprang up on either side of the road.

But it’s not just his neighborhood that feels scorched. To Hamill — one of Hollywood’s most outspoken and sharp-tongued Trump critics — the country itself feels battered. For a man who embodied the triumph of good over evil nearly half a century ago, it’s not always easy to find a new hope.

That sense of quiet disorientation — of a world slowly unraveling — pulses through #TheLifeOfChuck, director Mike Flanagan’s strange and tender adaptation of a 2020 Stephen King novella. The Neon film hits theaters as an unexpected — and somewhat risky — piece of summer counterprogramming: a hushed, reflective character study that begins with the end of the world and moves backward into a life-affirming meditation on memory, mortality and legacy.

Read our full interview with Hamill — and see more of Times photographer therealchristinahouse’s portraits of the actor — at the link in latimes_entertainment’s bio.

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