LOS ANGELES — Mark Hamill was at a point in his life where he felt ready to trade the Force for a pool float and a quiet crossword in the shade.

After five decades as the face of one of pop culture’s most enduring myths — Luke Skywalker, the wide-eyed Tatooine farm boy-turned-Jedi knight in “Star Wars” — Hamill had found a comfortable corner of the galaxy to call his own. He had a home he cherished, a family that kept him grounded and no pressing need to be in front of a camera again.

“I said, ‘This is perfect — they killed me off,’” Hamill, 73, says with a shrug on a warm May afternoon in Los Angeles, referring to Skywalker’s death in 2017’s “The Last Jedi.” “I didn’t have the drive or the motivation anymore. If you lose the fire in your belly, it’s easy to just hang around the pool all

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