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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 it's got a lot of gray in it but white that out and it wasn't

00:29until I put on the glasses where I said oh my god I'm Geppetto. It was a shock but

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

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

00:44and and my real hair so I love when you look in the mirror and you don't see

00:51yourself anymore you see the character that's when you know you're getting

00:55close. It's such a hopeful and inspiring film and it's coming out at a time when

01:00it can sometimes feel like the world is actually ending. It's perfect timing

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

01:10this film is it's positively therapeutic I think. I certainly felt so much better

01:19about everything after seeing it so I hope I hope the word of mouth is strong

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

01:30know in a way you usually would. The movie first premiered at TIFF over nine or

01:36almost nine months ago how does it feel that people finally get to see it in

01:40theaters? Was it that long ago? Oh my gosh. Well that was a revelation because I'd

01:45never I'd seen it once at Mike's house and it was just my wife and me and Mike

01:50and to see it with a full audience was just astonishing they were with us from

01:55the get-go they laughed in all the right places there was scattered applause and

01:59when the lights came up at the end there were people with tears in their eyes it

02:04was really powerful because you never know how people are gonna perceive it I

02:08hope there's I think it's gonna have strong word of mouth fingers crossed. It's a

02:14tear-jerker do you would you suggest that people bring tissues and come

02:17prepared? Yeah well unexpectedly so I don't know that they're gonna use their

02:27sleeves. And Nick Offerman's voice-over plays such an important role in the film

02:32if you had to pick a celebrity to voice-over a movie about your life who

02:36would it be? Well Nick Offerman does such a great job I just saw him oh in the

02:43credits to the Oscars it said announcer Nick Offerman so he's working all the

02:48time and the voice-over community has been a godsend to me I love them all

02:54they're so comfortable in their own skin they're so talented there's no kind of

03:02there's not the kind of competition and rivalry and I'm just astonished at how

03:08talented they are because they come out of the world of stand-up and improv

03:13groundlings and Second City I've been in sessions that were I've laughed so hard I

03:19feel like I owe them a cover charge it's that entertaining. And you recently said

03:24that you're stepping away from the Star Wars universe you've had your time in it

03:28what went into making that decision? Well it's just natural I mean one era ended

03:34and a whole new era began in fact they've produced more original content since I

03:40finished then in all six films that I was in but and it's great stuff I mean I

03:47loved Rogue One and Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett my son said dad you gotta watch

03:54and or so that's on my to-do list

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