It’s a line we’ve heard Mark Hamill recite many times over the years – odd considering it was a line that was only read during auditions and rehearsals – and once again he remembers the security on ‘Aquilea or Sullust‘ and the directing style of George Lucas, one that put the onus on the actors to deliver what Lucas wanted.
“It’s just me and Han Solo. He says, when he gets toward the Death Star, ‘OK, that’s enough for me. We’re turning around. I’ve held up my side of the bargain’,” Hamill told THR.
“Then I say, ‘But we can’t turn back. Fear is their greatest defense. I doubt if the actual security there is any greater than it was on Aquilea or Sullust. And what there is is most likely directed toward a large-scale assault.’”
Hamill said that he asked himself “who talks like this?” He noted that saying the line felt impossible while trying to work it into the conversation he had for the scene.
Hamill realized that he was set to have an uphill with George Lucas, who has a style of directing that doesn’t call or allow for a great deal of improvisation.
“George Lucas is not an actor’s director in the sense that he doesn’t want to hear about backstory or motivation or all that,” Hamill said. “He cast actors who are so close to what he wants that he’s not going to have to do a lot of that.”
