The Last Jedi: Adam Driver Refused to Hang With Mark Hamill

Poor Marky.

By Lucy O'Brien

Mark Hamill has opened up on why Adam Driver wouldn't hang out with him while making Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Hamill joked that Driver is “very moody and intense".

“I remember saying to Adam, ‘I don’t know how you work, or your technique. But, at some point, you were my nephew. I probably bounced you on my knee. I probably babysat for you. There’s that side, and now we’re both estranged from the Skywalker family. All I’m suggesting is, if you’d like, maybe we could go to lunch, we could get together and hang out.’”

Driver turned him down, Hamill said. “And more power to him".

Another of Driver's co-stars, John Boyega, is a little more forceful when it comes to rallying Driver round. “I give Adam hugs randomly, just for no reason,” he said. When Vanity Fair asks if he takes it, Boyega responded with "he just stands there. He just waits for me to be done."

For Driver's part, the actor said his seriousness is part of his internal process. “There’s big personal things that I find about every character, not just in Star Wars, that you have to make as personal as possible. It’s the big joke about being an actor, that you make everything you’re doing seem like it’s life or death. The things about that character that I find painful, that I really relate to, I kind of prefer to keep to myself,” he said.

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Lucy O'Brien is an editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her ramblings on Twitter.

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