Quote Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name View Post
Don't insult Mark Hamil, he has been the most successful of the entire Star Wars cast. Go read up on his extensive voice acting career.
Um - he's a film actor who does voice work, his most recent TV gig was as Pamela Anderson's Uncle on VIP.

In any case - he's not well paid, and despite being a fairly good actor he can't break out of being Luke.

Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
Exactly. The first film was tempered by Steven Spielberg, who suggested the opening sequence, much of the narrative and R2-D2 and C3-PO instead of Lucas' preferred Jar-Jar Binks style aliens. Lucas didn't have free reign on the first three, and his ideas were altered and adjusted by his directors, crew and cast. The second set was all unabated Lucas, and we know how that went!
More to the point - his wife edited them, removing large chunks of the first film and leaving them where they belonged on the cutting room floor.

He divorced her since finishing EP VI.