"So she was someone that sort of put it in perspective for me," he admits of the late Fisher, who died in 2016.

At the premiere for The Life of Chuck, Mark Hamill chats with THR on the carpet and dishes on transforming into his character and reveals why he thinks the film is coming out at the perfect time. Plus,

Mark Hamill says Carrie Fisher once told him to 'embrace' his 'Star Wars' fame after he downplayed it at a broadway show.