Star Wars' Mark Hamill Can't Believe Luke Skywalker Died 'From an Overdose of the Force' and Says Obi-Wan and Yoda Should Have Warned Him

Mark Hamill has commented erstwhile again connected Luke Skywalker's decease successful Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and said that if "an overdose of the Force" had been a existent risk, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda should person warned him.

Hamill's legendary quality passed distant during The Last Jedi's climax aft expending the past of his beingness vigor connected a Force projection of himself, which served arsenic a distraction for Kylo Ren portion the Resistance began their escape.

The decease of Star Wars' archetypal leader is simply a arguable taxable among the franchise's fans, and adjacent Hamill has admitted helium had issues with his character's relation successful the movie. Now, successful caller comments connected Luke Skywalker's demise, Hamill has said he'd person expected mentors Obi-Wan and Yoda to person mentioned the dangers of utilizing the Force, up of Luke's usage "overdose."

Mark Hamill. Image credit: Amanda Edwards/Getty.

"[It's] comic that radical miss the irony that [Luke Skywalker] died from an overdose of the Force," Hamill said, speaking connected CBS This Morning (via Star Wars Holocron). "I mean, who knew that was adjacent a thing?

"Don't you deliberation if determination was adjacent a marginal accidental that utilizing the Force could beryllium lethal, Obi-Wan would've said 'Use the Force successful moderation, Luke?' Or Yoda would've said 'Overdo Force projection, you indispensable not?' Nobody warned me! But obviously, they concluded his story, helium died."

Hamill is speaking somewhat lingua successful feature present — thing helium often does, specified arsenic erstwhile helium suggested Luke was present a bare Force shade aft dying and leaving his robes behind. And undoubtedly, the histrion knows good capable the reasons wherefore Luke did what helium did, adjacent if it did pb to his exhaustion — arsenic a idiosyncratic sacrifice, alternatively than immoderate different motive.

Still, the comments travel aft the histrion antecedently expressed his ain idiosyncratic dissatification for Luke's authorities of being successful The Last Jedi, which helium described arsenic the erstwhile Jedi Master having go "a suicidal hermit." Indeed, Hamill said helium had yet rationalized Luke's behaviour by creating his ain incredibly acheronian backstory that progressive the decease of a young son, thing that decidedly isn't portion of the Disney canon.

"I thought, what could marque idiosyncratic springiness up a devotion to what is fundamentally a spiritual entity, to springiness up being a Jedi?" Hamill explained previously. "Well, the emotion of a woman. So helium falls successful emotion with a woman. He gives up being a Jedi. They person a kid together. At immoderate constituent the child, arsenic a toddler, picks up an unattended lightsaber, pushes the fastener and is killed instantly. The woman is truthful afloat of grief, she kills herself."

Earlier this week, The Last Jedi manager Rian Johnson said helium had anticipated the movie's polarizing effect — and argued that it would person been worse to make thing "afraid" of shaking up the franchise that simply treated its assemblage with "kid gloves."

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