The Star Wars films have been in the “Oooh, secret cameo!” business for a while now, a natural consequence of an entire generation growing up in the shadow of one of the planet’s biggest sci-fi franchises, and wanting to get in on the fun. Still, there’s a pretty hefty difference between “the rich guys whose grandma rules England get to be stormtroopers” and an appearance from actual royalty, one made clear by a recent revelation that Mark Hamill—the king of Star Wars himself!—appeared in a clandestine fashion in Disney+’s The Mandalorian.
This is per Deadline, reporting on a tidbit that cropped up in the most recent episode of the Disney Gallery behind-the-scenes series about the show. Said episode—which is all about how Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and the rest of the show’s staff filled the space Western with pretty much every background character, one-off alien, and Ewoks: The Battle For Endor refugee they could get their hands on—includes the revelation almost off-handedly, but it turns out that Hamill shows up to voice two whole lines of dialogue in the show’s fifth episode. (A.k.a., “The One Where Amy Sedaris Shows Up To Do Amy Sedaris Things.”)
Specifically, Hamill played droid bartender EV-9D9, who used to have a gig torturing other droids on behalf of Jabba the Hutt. (Return Of The Jedi director Richard Marquand reportedly voiced the character in its first appearance.) Re-listening to the moment from The Mandalorian, you can be excused for not noticing who’s saying the lines, though; Hamill’s distinctive cadences are hidden pretty heavily behind the digital droid voice effect, and there’s none of the flair associated with so many of his more high-profile voice actor performances.
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Without endorsing the mostly bad Rise of Skywalker, I do enjoy his little cameo as an alien spy who later gets decapitated.
These aren’t the droid cameos you’re looking for.
When is “Star Wars Dad” going to make a cameo, with a beard, a pair of man-boobs behind a Star Wars Tshirt from Target? He’s seen in the background force-feeding a dead franchise to his 6 year old son and sharing it on social media.
Not just that: Mark Hamill has had a role in every Star Wars movie aside from the prequels:Looking up “Patrick Williams” on IMDb, we see that he was the voice of “Boolio,” a character I do not remember. Hamill also voiced “Dobbu Scay,” another alien in The Last Jedi. I can’t figure out who he voiced in The Force Awakens, Rogue One, or Solo, though.
That Mark Hamill’s Twitter avatar is Luke Skywalker wearing a surgical mask made my day alone.
DID SOMEONE MENTION THE LAST JEDI?!!! I HAVE SOME OPINIONS!!!
Secret cameos: like easter eggs, but minus any cleverness, or joy of discovery. “yeah, but guess who’s wearing that helmet”
Honestly, easter eggs are now like easter eggs without any of the joy of discovery. Now that easter eggs are basically designed into movies so they can be incorporated into future marketing campaigns, they are about as much fun as corporate april fool’s pranks.Off topic: I had no fucking idea that was Amy Sedaris…
i recognised her from her voice, and not from her voice and her height, as is my usual way.
I think he should cameo in person in an episode. Have a character say “Whoa, you look just like Luke Skywalker”“Yeah, I get that a lot”Then Hamill just walks off
I think they used that one in The Muppet Show.
“The One Where Amy Sedaris Shows Up To Do Amy Sedaris Things.”hey you pigeonholed her first, not me, so now it’s ok if i agree
This was his best cameo ever though…
What the heck? So are they going to re-edit yet another version of the prequel trilogy to add him in or not? I can’t tell from this article. 😀
Mark Hamill should have surprise cameos in every film and TV show. Anytime you can use Mark Hamill, you should use Mark Hamill.