Mark Hamill Pays Tribute to Carrie Fisher at Tony Awards
by EG
Mark Hamill has been vocal about many subjects (one in particular) on Twitter as @HamillHimself, but he’s all about right place, right time when considering his role at tonight’s Tony Awards. “I’m the host of the buzzkill segment of the evening, the In Memoriam segment, so there’s no room for a Trump joke or witty remarks,” he says.
Hamill is a natural choice for this year’s tribute, which will include among its honorees both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, who passed away within a day of each other late last December. “I wasn’t as close to Debbie as I was to Carrie, but I certainly knew her and loved her deeply,” Hamill says. “It was a terrible one-two punch; worst Christmas ever.”
He also confirmed that Star Wars fans especially will miss Fisher when the as-yet-untitled Episode IX arrives in theaters May 24, 2019. “Usually her timing was exquisite, but among the reasons it’s terrible that she won’t be with us is that she was the pivotal character [in that film],” he says. “And I also look at it selfishly: She was just hilarious. Sometimes I wouldn’t want to go out and do certain things to promote [The Force Awakens], but then I’d find out Carrie would be there, and I’d say OK, because then I knew it would be fun.”
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Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher starred together in four Star Wars movies, beginning with Star Wars Epsiode IV: A New Hope.