Overview

• Hamill disclosed on the Bullseye with Jesse Thorn podcast that he imagined Luke falling in love, renouncing the Jedi Order and then losing his child when a toddler activated an unattended lightsaber
• He added that Luke’s wife then killed herself in grief, a tragic twist intended to ground the Jedi master’s self-imposed exile
• The actor said he drew on real incidents of children harmed by unsecured firearms to lend emotional weight to his invented backstory
• Despite praising Rian Johnson’s talents, Hamill acknowledged he initially disagreed with The Last Jedi’s depiction of Luke abandoning his allies
• This revelation has reignited fan debates over Luke’s arc in The Last Jedi, which remains one of the most divisive films in the Star Wars franchise