Det är ingen hemlighet att Mark Hamill var starkt emot Rian Johnsons tolkning av Luke Skywalker och har flera gånger uttalat sig offentligt om karaktärens fundamentala motsägelser. Men under en BAFTA Q&A-session möttes Hamill och Johnson återigen för att besvara lite frågor kring The Last Jedi, där de bland annat tar upp sina debatter kring karaktären - en karaktär som Hamill menar består av komplexa känslor:
"I was amazed at the complexity of it, that it was so challenging, the range of emotions, every color in the pallet. Mine happened to be of a darker hue"
Rian Johnson förklarar i sin tur utmaningen med att få till Lukes karaktär utan att behandla honom som någon fegis:
"That was part of the challenge with the character of Luke. It felt like I couldn't have him on the island because he's a coward or he's giving up. He had to have an active reason he was there. His reason is, he genuinely believes the Jedi are a hindrance to the galaxy. And so he actually turns it into this kind of heroic act he's taken on his shoulders of, he knows his friends are suffering and he's making the choice to do the most painful, difficult thing for him, which is take himself out of the fight"
Hamill återgick sedan till sina invändningar om karaktären och om utmaningen i att överge sin ursprungliga vision av Luke för att lita på någon annans vision om samma karaktär:
"Well, you have to trust someone. As long as I was able to express my reservations about Luke — because you can't help but feel some measure of ownership like 'Luke wouldn't say that,' or 'Luke wouldn't do this,' — but once we had that conversation, my job was to wipe out what Mark Hamill wants and do my best to realize Rian's vision.
And I thought I'm going to turn over everything. I usually have an [interal] mechanism that says 'this feels right,' 'this doesn't feel right.' All throughout the process... he'd say, 'we got it.' I'd say 'shouldn't we do one more?' and he'd say 'no, we got it.' I said, well, Rian, if you're happy, I'm happy.
He was my seeing-eye dog, so if I've succeeded in any way, it's all because of Rian. And also if I fail, it's also because of Rian. See, a Jedi never takes responsibility"
Hur ser du på Luke-kontroversen?
"Ser du användarnas snittbetyg, Rian? Jag sa ju att det skulle sluta så här!"
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