Mark Hamill’s secret cameo in The Mandalorian, revealed

When you think of Star Wars, Mark Hamill is probably one of the first names that comes to mind. Since the release of A New Hope in1977, Hamill has starred as Luke Skywalker in six movies in that galaxy far, far away (I’m counting his silent appearance at the very end of The Force Awakens). However, it seems like Hamill was never satisfied with just playing Luke. He’s made cameos appearances in a lot more of Star Wars than you’d think, including in the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian!

It would be very impressive if you spotted Hamill’s cameo on your first watch. As revealed in the final episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, Hamill pops up in Episode 5, “The Gunslinger.”  He voices a droid bartender named EV-9D9. He may not have many lines, but whatever Hamill says carries a lot of weight, so it balances out:

And The Mandalorian isn’t the only place where EV-9D9 shows up. He’s been part of the canon since Return of the Jedi, where he was working as a maintenance droid for Jabba the Hutt. In the original trilogy, he was voiced by the film’s director Richard Marquand:

And over on Twitter, Hamill talked about some of the other cameo appearances he’s made, saying he has been “vocally represented” in every Star Wars film save the prequels. Apparently he’s credited as Patrick Williams? Tricky.

The hunt is on! Naturally, the internet is already on it:

And who’s to say that the cameos will stop there? Could we unknowingly hear his voice in upcoming Star Wars projects, such as Taika Waititi’s movie?

In other Mandalorian news, Bryce Dallas Howard revealed to Variety that she’ll be returning to the director’s chair for the show’s second season; in season 1, she directed the Seven Samurai-like fourth episode, “Sanctuary.” And speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, creator Jon Favreau talked about the importance of listening to fans. “You put something out in the world, and then it echoes back at you,” he said. “You have to listen. It’s not a one-way street. It’s a two-way street. You have to feel the energy of the audience. But when you come from comedy — and when I was doing improv back in Chicago — that’s it: You have to read the room, you have to feel the room. You have to be in community with the audience. You have to be part of it.”

"The fact of the matter is, as much as we love working on Star Wars, we love even more making Star Wars for other people. And when other people are excited by it, dig what we’re doing and are appreciative, that’s as good as it gets for us."

Interestingly, Favreau also said that he was inspired by shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad when coming up with the show’s serialized structure. “It seemed like there was a whole new way to tell a story over a chapter, over many, many hours — more like a novel.” I’m a little surprised to hear that because, to me, one of the refreshing things about The Mandalorian was that while there was a season-long narrative, a lot of the episodes more or less stood on their own as discrete adventures, whereas very few Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad episodes do. But if that’s what serialization means to Favreau, I’ll take it.

And finally, here’s a picture of Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who directed the season finale, cradling Baby Yoda:

“He reminded me so much of my babies when they were 6 months old,” Waititi said. “I couldn’t help it, I had to hold it in the same way.”

We would have done the same. The Mandalorian season 2 comes out this October.

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