# Mark Hamill Car Accident **URL:** \ **Category:** Articles\ **Created:** [October 24, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/mark-hamill-car-accident/28005 "2020-10-24T13:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
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# Mark Hamill Accident: Mark Hamill a Hollywood actor who unfortunately met an accident on 11 January 1997 which fractured his nose and left cheek bone. As you should be expecting that The news of this accident would be on every news channel but it did not happen like that. The news of the accident did not spread like the fire because at that time he was an unknown actor. Before his accident he worked for an upcoming movie “Star Wars the new hope” in which he played the character of “Lucas Skywalker”. Actually this was the role which brought him fame. He got through the surgery and the plastic surgeons had to take cartilage from his ear to shape his nose. People still compare his face before and after the surgery and point out little differences in his face although there is not a drastic change. ## What did the actor say about the accident? This is what Mark Hamill said about his accident in Gossip Magazine in the year 1978. “ What happened was that I was on the wrong freeway. I was out in the sticks somewhere and there were no cars and no traffic, thank God. I was going about 65 to 70 mph. I was speeding, going too fast and what happened I think was that I tried to negotiate an off ramp and lost control, grumbled over, and went off the road. I fractured my nose and my cheek. Following are some more words of Mark Hamill about his accident. “The accident made hamburger out of my face. It took many of the special effects at the hospital to put it back all together again. Part of my one ear was used to build up my nose.” Dynamite magazine 1978. “My plastic surgeon took cartilage from my ear to rebuild my nose.” 1980 “I broke my nose that’s it. Unknown source. ## What’s mysterious in this accident? Well you might be thinking that it was just an accident and why it is so mysterious. The mystery behind this is that when in 1980 “The Empire Strike back” was released. In the very first scene of the movie Lucas Skywalker’s face got scars by the attack of the monster Wampa. This scene gave a little description of the scars that were on Mark Hamill’s face due to the surgery. People predicted that the scene was specially written to explain Mark Hamill’s scars. This mystery has not been solved yet because of the following statements of the director and cast that does not seem to give the same answer to the people’s prediction. ### Director George Lucas’s statement: George Lucas was the director of the film and when he was asked whether the first scene was written specially to describe Mark Hamill’s new face and scars he refused and said that the scene justified the new look of Mark but was not especially written because of the accident. Following are the exact words of George Lucas. “ At the end of shooting for “A new hope” he had been in a car accident and I knew that he was going to look a little different than he was in the first movie, but my feeling was sometime had past, they have been in the rebellion fighting, that kind of thing, so the change was justifiable. There is a scene in the film where Mark gets beat up by the monster, which helps even more, but that was not really the meaning of why we wrote the monster in the beginning. Actually we needed something to make the film suspenseful at the beginning while the empire is looking for them.” George Lucas said in Blue ray commentary of “ The empire strikes back.” ### Carrie Fisher’s statement: Carrie Fisher who played the role of princess Leia stated things differently and things got messed up. She said that the opening scene of “The empire strikes back” was written specifically to explain the new look of Lucas Skywalker. Let’s have a look at her words. “I was still shooting for the Star Wars when Mark got into the car accident. It was a really bad accident. Miraculously his teeth did not shatter but his nose did. He had to have some of his ear put into his nose. So they adjusted the film with this snow monster to right away in the movie scratch his face to account for his looks being different.” The actual reason for the that first scene can never be known because only writer can explain it and she passed away some months after the movie was released. ## Mark Hamill’s before and after appearance: There was not a dramatic change in the appearance of Mark Hamill after the plastic surgery but people still compare his before and after appearance. Before surgery his face was pretty smooth but after the accident his face was not that smooth. Some scars were visible even after some years passed. ## About Mark Hamill: Mark Hamill was born on 25 september 1951 in California, US. He is an american actor and voice actor. His father was a captain in US Navy. By excluding him, he had total six siblings. Four sisters and two brothers. Due to the transfer of his father Hamill changed many schools during his education. His mother was half English and half Swedish. In start he appeared in multiple television films like The City and Sarah T portrait of a teenage alcoholic. He got fame through the role of Lucas Skywalker in Star Wars. This role has brought him 4 saturn awards as well. ## Conclusion: Mark Hamill’s accident has been a mystery because of only one scene of the movie, the opening scene of “The empires strikes back” in which Lucas Skywalker’s face got scratched by Wampa the monster. The mysterious thing is that it is not clear whether this scene was specially written to describe scars and new look of the actor or it was just a coincidence. The director said that it was a coincidence and according to another actor Carrie Fisher who played the role of princess Leia it was not a coincidence but it was specially written to explain Mark Hamill’s scars. Whatever it is, it is a mystery since the movie was released in 1980. --- _[View the full topic](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/mark-hamill-car-accident/28005)._