I've been on the if-it-tastes-good-don't-eat-it diet. So I pick up the script for episode eight. But as I left I thought: Well, that was incredible but I’m never doing that again. It’s something everyone should do if they get the chance. It requires unbelievable physical exertion to get to the top. The heliport is at the base of the island because, well, building one at the top would be obscene. But then – if you ever go to Skellig Michael – you'll realise it just never ends. So I'm a proponent of practical effects as opposed to over-reliance on CGI. And then I find out we're going to a real physical location. The set is 15 minutes away from my house. "So I got the script for The Force Awakens and I have to remove my hood," says the actor. Hamill certainly had mixed feelings about returning to the Iveragh peninsula for the shoot. “If I have to walk up Skellig Michael, I’m staying. "It's time for the Jedi to end."ĭaisy Ridley and Mark Hamill in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. "I only know one truth," Luke intones, glumly. No wonder trailers for the new film, which will clock in at 150 minutes (a record length for the Star Wars franchise), are downright nihilistic. Their son, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), having been trained in the ways of the Force by Uncle Luke, had turned to the Dark Side. And who could blame him? His sister Leia (Carrie Fisher) and her husband Han (Harrison Ford) had split up. When we left Luke Skywalker at the close of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he had taken up residence on Skellig Michael, just off Co Kerry. But the more you tell people what the story is the less special it seems when people see it." Downright nihilistic Brigsby Bear is a really good example of that. But I love going in to see a movie not knowing anything about it. "As I always say: 'You don't want to know what you're getting for your birthday, do you?' I remember seeing the trailer for Castaway and you saw Tom Hanks crashing, then surviving, and then arriving back in civilisation. He opens his mouth as if to launch into a patented Hamill yarn – he’s a great man for the yarns – only to snap it shut. Yesterday a guy said: Was it hard getting used to a lightsabre again? And I said. If talking about crisps is tricky, that has nothing on the business of talking about Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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