Watch: The Sweet Way Billie Lourd Is Honoring Late Mom Carrie Fisher for ‘Star Wars’ Day
You say you love checking in with the cast of Star Wars?
We know.
Not always onboard with the sentiment, however, was Harrison Ford, who admittedly tried to put a lot of mileage between himself and Han Solo after Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi closed out the initial trilogy in 1983.
Hence his own surprise to be so moved by his experience returning to a galaxy far, far away for 2015’s The Force Awakens.
“I never thought it would come back to bless me rather than haunt me,” Ford admitted at San Diego Comic-Con at the time, adding, “The original Star Wars that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.”
But while a few (dozen) other projects may be jockeying for prime position in the 84-year-old’s screen legacy, Mark Hamill knows where his celebrity Force lies.
“I’ll never get used to the fan reaction,” he told Parade in 2017, when he returned as Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. Noting he’d just been to New York Comic-Con, Hamill explained, “It’s so ingrained in their life experience; they’re transformed by it. Some of them are just vibrating because they’re so excited.”
Even just in the past decade, let alone the 49 years since the original Star Wars (a.k.a. Episode IV—A New Hope, the extra title bestowed on it in 1981) came out, the universe has expanded dramatically on screens of all sizes, with streaming series like The Mandalorian and Andor filling in the lore gaps along with the likes of Rogue One and Solo (both subtitled A Star Wars Story).
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The latest installment in the sprawling franchise, 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu, has landed on Disney+, starring Pedro Pascal as the mostly helmeted titular bounty hunter and the cutest CGI-enhanced animatronic puppet you’ve ever seen.
Truly adorable, Baby Yoda is.
But though almost everyone who’s populated the live-action cinematic universe and various TV shows have been distinguished additions to the canon, we’re only here because of the unbelievable chemistry generated by the actors in the O.G. trilogy—whether they ever showed their faces or not.
So, while we’ll never tell you the odds, we are here to catch you up on what happened to the Star Wars cast after they first made movie magic. Don’t everybody thank us at once:
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