Mark Hamill Weighs In on How to Correctly Pronounce Star Wars Names
Mark Hamill has joined the conversation on how to correctly pronounce many Star Wars names. Hamill first appeared in his iconic role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope, and has reprised the role in four more Star Wars films. In the decades since A New Hope's release, Star Wars has grown to become the second largest film franchise in the world, being surpassed only by the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
As with many fantasy and sci-fi films, Star Wars created worlds, species, and languages unique to the franchise. There have been debates among fans since the very first film's release about how to correctly pronounce certain words in the Star Wars universe, from names of characters to types of tech. Recently, the officialStar Wars Twitter page launched a debate about how to pronounce AT-AT (All Terrain Armoured Transport), with fans divided between pronouncing it as «A-T A-T» or «at-at».
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Now, Hamill has weighed in on the pronunciation discourse on his Twitter, saying that he and other cast members often asked Star Wars creator George Lucas about how to pronounce certain words. Hamill recalls asking Lucas about the proper pronunciation of Leia, Chewbacca, and Han, wanting to ensure that there was consistency. However, Hamill says that Lucas would simply shrug, and that he never really cared about pronunciation. According to Hamill, Lucas said that Star Wars names would be pronounced differently in various parts of the galaxy. Check out Hamill's post below:
FYI: When we would ask George: «Is it Chew-bah-ka or Chew-back-a?» / «Is it Lay-a or Lee-a?» / «Is it Hahn or Han (as in hand)?»- he would just shrug & didn't really care. He told us it would be pronounced in
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