Mark Hamill regrets his appearance in The Big Bang Theory

“The Big Bang Theory” brought a Tons From amazing guest stars throughout 12 seasons – Including a large number of actors from the “Star Trek” series alone — but one of the most interesting cameos courtesy of Mark Hamill, the man famous for playing Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars” who appeared in the Season 11 episode “The Bow Tie Asymmetry.” According to a tell-all book about the show, he has major regrets about appearing in the series.

Hamill, who plays himself, ends up running into Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) after Howard finds Hamill’s missing dog, appropriately named “Park Hamill” — and then does Howard a favor. Howard happily takes advantage of this favor by convincing Hamill to officiate the wedding of his friends Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik)…but as Hamill told Jessica Radloff in her book “The Big Bang Theory: The definitive inside story of the epic hit series“, wasn’t familiar with the series itself for a while.

“I didn’t really commit to the series early on,” Hamill admitted, saying he actually came back to it while filming “The Last Jedi” in England. He continued: “I had to go for a walk, and I would notice on Saturdays and Sundays that a TV station would be broadcasting four-hour segments of Big Bang. By then, there were a lot of episodes that I had watched.” I haven’t seen it, so I’ll measure it on the treadmill, “Okay, I’ll do one loop on the treadmill.” And then, ‘Oh, I’ll do two episodes on the treadmill,’ followed by three.” When all was said and done, Hamill said he probably watched about 30 to 40 episodes before he guest-starred on the series. He admitted, “It took “It took me months and months and months, but I’ve seen them all now.”

Mark Hamill clearly knew he was behind the curve with The Big Bang Theory, but he made up for it in the end — and as a “Star Wars” veteran and pop culture fan, he’s finally come to really love the show.

“I knew they were referencing all kinds of popular culture, and that the characters loved comic books, sci-fi, fantasy (…) but I had no idea how ingrained they were and how they could be so subversive in their humor,” Hamill said. Jessica Radloff praises the show’s caustic attitude toward things like “Star Wars” intros, for example. “Like, they were planning an all-movie day and they said, ‘Well, you know, we’re going to start with Phantom Menace at noon and I’m just wondering if that hour is long enough to schedule complaints.’ I thought, wow, this is a very clever spoiler!

In fact, Hamill said he hopes so king Find out more about the show before appearing in it because you can talk to the cast and crew about the many episodes that reference “Star Wars” or Its creator is George Lucas. “Once I knew all this, it would have really changed my experience. I would talk to them about when they would go to (Lucas’ home) Skywalker Ranch, or (the Season 9 episode ‘The Opening Night Exciting’) where it opens with the creeps from ‘Star Wars “,” Hamill thinks. “I thought I saw a lot when I did my episode, but I came full circle and saw them all. It wasn’t until I had the experience of being on the show that I really became enamored with it to the degree I became. I became obsessed with it.”

The bit with Howard and Park Hamill is just the beginning of Mark Hamill’s transformation into “The Big Bang Theory,” because as I mentioned, the whole thing culminates in Hamill officiating Sheldon and Amy’s long-awaited wedding. This part of the episode is actually a lot of fun; Everyone is watching the concert Losing their minds Because Luke Skywalker exists and continues to ask in-depth questions about “Star Wars,” many of which he can’t even answer. (Fortunately, Stuart Bloom – Played by Kevin Sussman, who almost snatched up the role of Howard (He knows the answer to almost all of those questions.) Then, during the actual vows, Hamill is so touched by how moving Amy and Sheldon’s speeches are that he cries…which is kind of a nice undercut when Sheldon asks Hamill to sign a million things after the ceremony is over.

For his part, Hamill said: He loves That – and his feelings were apparently real. “That was a cultural, pivotal moment in popular culture,” Hamill recalls. “I didn’t expect the emotions of that moment to happen to me, so when it did, I felt choked up. The whole episode was so effortlessly well done. I love when Sheldon says, ‘I’ve got four thousand things for you’ to sign. Jim Parsons is great, but the cast The whole thing, in fact, is just perfect.”

“It was really great to have him there,” Parsons agreed, saying that even though the cast had only just met Hamill, it worked out great. “For a big scene like that, it was strangely intimate. And you have this person involved in a big moment that you don’t know well and who’s never been on the show before (…) I kind of enjoyed that presence with it. It was very strange!”