When the first film began shooting, the cast and crew didn’t know what the reaction would be. This was long before it became the Star Wars saga. With the three films under his belt, Hamill told Lucasfilm Fan Club:
“The biggest difficulty or problem is trying to remember the scope of the thing and where you fit in. Also, the movie was so technical in the sense that so much of it was dubbed and looped because of sound problems that it was difficult to go back into the studio and make it sound as natural as when you did it on the set.”
It sounds funny now, with Disney+ shows, video games, comic books, and extended universe novels that go so much further into the galaxy far, far away, but even then, Star Wars was epic in scale. Luke Skywalker was fighting for the fate of the universe (no matter how that turned out later, as we’ve seen in “Andor” and the recent episodes of “The Mandalorian”). Remembering the place of one small person would be difficult if you’re the one playing the role. Still, as far as gripes go with a franchise, that’s not so bad.
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