Mark Hamill has spent nearly five decades in the spotlight, but the actor insists he’s still learning to disappear.

“The definition of a character actor is an actor that disappears, and you see only the character,” Hamill says about his role in Mike Flanagan’s “ The Life of Chuck ,” which won the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award in 2024 before being acquired by Neon.

In Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella, Hamill plays an aging accountant — an intimate and surprising departure from the larger-than-life characters that made him famous, such as Luke Skywalker from the “ Star Wars ” series. The film, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan, explores memory, mortality and the marks we leave behind.

One thing about Hamill, he knows how

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