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Lloyd-Jones more recently played the role of New Republic's Lieutenant Reed in The Book of Boba Fett's previous episode, and his involvement with the series led viewers to speculate Luke would return. It's unclear from the episode's credits how his voice was generated, but it's possible Hamill's own could have been used and digitally de-aged.Īctor Max Lloyd-Jones served as Luke's body double for his surprise return in The Mandalorian's Season 2 finale. There's also the matter of Luke's voice, which correspondingly sounds much younger than the 70-year-old Hamill's. Scott Lang is also credited as "Stunt Double - Jedi," and of course the CGI face of a younger Hamill is superimposed over Hamilton's. Hamilton wasn't the only actor involved in bringing Luke's younger version to life. RELATED: The Book of Boba Fett Didn't Need to Be a Separate Show - Here's Why Hamilton has appeared in The Orville and NCIS, among his other credits. Actor Graham Hamilton's name appears in the credits of The Book of Boba Fett's latest episode, "Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger" as "Performance Artist - Jedi." That Jedi, of course, is presumably Luke. Filmed after Carrie Fisher's death, the sequence featured Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, acting as Leia, with her mother's face digitally edited in.It certainly isn't Mark Hamill reprising his role as Luke from decades ago, but it isn't the actor who previously portrayed him The Mandalorian, either. And, of course, in 2019, "The Rise of Skywalker" featured a flashback to young Luke and Leia training with lightsabers. Hamill is one of a handful of classic Star Wars actors who have "reprised" their roles as their younger selves in recent projects, but he is the only one who has been able to actively participate: 2016's "Rogue One" featured "A New Hope"-era Grand Moff Tarkin as one of its main villains, using CGI to create the character even though actor Peter Cushing died in 1994. A combination of de-aging and deepfake technology was then used to "transform" Hamill into Luke as he would appear in the years after "Return of the Jedi." "The Mandalorian" produced Luke's younger-sounding voice by digitally compositing old pieces of dialogue and interviews it's possible that "The Book of Boba Fett" producers used a similar method to re-create a young Hamill's voice.
Essentially, both Hamill and his stand-in - Hamilton or Lang - filmed Luke's scenes (for "The Mandalorian," Hamill's stand-in was Max Lloyd-Jones, who appears in "The Book of Boba Fett" as an X-wing pilot). In a "Disney Galley" behind-the-scenes episode after "The Mandalorian" season finale aired, Hamill and the production team revealed a few of the tricks they used that allowed him to reprise the role of young Luke decades later. Also in the credits, however, are Graham Hamilton as "Performance Artist - Jedi" and Scott Lang as "Stunt Double - Jedi." The vague credits are, presumably, to keep Luke's reappearance from leaking during and after production, but they also confirm that, like his appearance in "The Mandalorian," this version of Luke was basically the coolest group project ever. Hamill is listed in the credits, with his name appearing over the concept art illustration of Luke and Grogu. The end credits of the episode give us a pretty good idea of how things went down. Of course, Hamill is now 70 years old, so who played him in "The Book of Boba Fett"? How did the show pull off this trick of de-aging? Never count a Jedi out, though! Episode six of " The Book of Boba Fett" takes a detour from the adventures of Boba Fett and Fennec Shand and, instead, catches up with our favorite padawan, Grogu - and his Jedi master, Luke Skywalker, in the exact likeness of a young Mark Hamill, is right there, too. Luke Skywalker made a surprising and epic return to Star Wars in the season two finale of " The Mandalorian," but it seemed unlikely that we'd see him reappear.
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