Mark Hamill Welcomes Obi-Wan's Young Luke Actor to the Star Wars Family
Mark Hamill has welcomed the young actor playing Luke Skywalker in Obi-Wan Kenobi to the Star Wars family. The upcoming series is set to follow Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) through his life in exile on Tatooine, where he watches over Luke to protect him. Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan finds himself recruited for an important mission, one that draws him away from his responsibility of watching over Luke. He'll have to avoid being hunted down by Darth Vader's (Hayden Christensen) ruthless Inquisitors while he tries to complete his mission fast to return to Tatooine.
As the May 25 premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi approaches, more details about the series have emerged, including the fact that the scripts had to undergo massive rewrites. One of the major ideas scrapped was Obi-Wan protecting Luke from Darth Maul, as The Mandalorian producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni feared the story was too similar to Din Djarin's. The inclusion of Maul would also contradict some of the events seen in Star Wars Rebels, resulting in the story being rewritten to include Christensen's Vader as the antagonist. Naturally, the series would need a young actor to play Luke, and the iconic role went to Grant Feely.
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Now, Mark Hamill himself has dedicated a post on Twitter to welcoming the young Luke actor into the Skywalker family. In a touching response to Hamill's original endorsement of the actor, Feely responded saying that he was "honored" and he "hopes to make [Hamill] proud." Hamill quoted the reply with even more words of encouragement and placed a photo of Feely alongside a picture of his younger self along with words of
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