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Mark Hamill in The Life of Chuck<\/em>. Courtesy of NEON<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In The Life of Chuck<\/em>, the new film from director Mike Flanagan<\/strong> and based on the story by Stephen King<\/strong>, Tom Hiddleston<\/a><\/strong> stars as Chuck, a man whose life is told in reverse. Alongside him, Mark Hamill<\/a><\/strong> plays a character full of contradictions\u2014someone who rhapsodizes about the beauty of math while telling others to abandon their artistic dreams and pursue safer careers.<\/p>\n

That moment hit home for Hamill, who said the advice felt all too familiar. \u201cIt was relatable because I remember telling my parents what I wanted to do. They said, \u2018You\u2019re out of your mind. What are the odds? We don\u2019t know anybody in show business.\u2019 So that\u2019s common advice because the odds are against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite that, Hamill found early inspiration in live theater. During his final years of high school, while living in Japan with his family, he convinced his father to take him on trips to New York. \u201cI begged my father and he took me on two trips to New York where I would see theater by myself. I saw, I don\u2019t know, half a dozen shows and it made it more real to me because they were real people,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d find out where the stage door was and\u2026 I just wanted to see them in real life, in their street clothes. I was that intense about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, Hamill delivers one of the longest and most complex speeches Flanagan has ever written. The director admitted he was initially nervous to throw such a \u201cvolume of words\u201d at an actor, but Hamill took it seriously from day one.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, I got it like a month in advance so I could work on it every single day,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d read it out loud or try and find the through line where he\u2019s extolling the joys of math.\u201d<\/p>\n

One line in particular gave him trouble, until he found his own unique (and kind of hilarious) way in. \u201cI was having a hard time making a jump from one line to the other,\u201d he explained. \u201cOne line was, \u2018Just think you could go to dinner and figure out how much it costs for everybody to eat. And it\u2019s good for your brain.\u2019 And I said, \u2018How do I make that jump?\u2019 Then it hit me: eat brain. So, in the side, I wrote \u2018zombie.\u2019 Because I\u2019ll do that. I mean, anything to help me remember lines. I do cartoons, really bad puns. The worse, the better, because you\u2019ll always remember them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after all that preparation, Hamill was still so connected to the script that when Flanagan cut a single line, he noticed. \u201cEvery word he wrote was, to me, perfection,\u201d Hamill said. \u201cAnd so if you take a line out of it, it deprives the audience of the full impact because he\u2019s a wonderful writer as well as a director.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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