Did you forget that Star Wars legend Mark Hamill appeared in 1992’s Sleepwalkers? Well, so did Mark Hamill.
The actor, 73, addressed his first Stephen King role in an interview with Entertainment Weekly about The Long Walk, his latest King role. Hamill appeared in a small cameo role as Sheriff Jenkins, a police officer, in the first movie the best-selling horror author wrote that wasn’t based on one of his books.
“I totally forgot,” Hamill tells EW. “If I remember right, Mick Garris, the director, asked me, ‘Could I do a small role?’ I loved him so much, and I thought, ‘I’ve gotta do it to help him.’ I don’t even know if I got paid, but I totally forgot about it. If there’s not a premiere of a movie, sometimes they’ll slip through, and I don’t see ’em. I think I eventually saw it, but it was so long ago, I can’t remember much of it.”
Sleepwalkers starred Brian Krause and Alice Krige as Charles and Mary Brady, the last two surviving members of a species of shapeshifting vampires known as sleepwalkers, who can shift between human and their natural werecat forms, while sustaining themselves with the life force from female virgins.
Everett Collection Stephen King’s ‘Sleepwalkers’
The sleepwalker species would find themselves at home in the world of Game of Thrones, as (gasp!) Mary is both Charles’ mother and his lover. Moving to a new town in Indiana, Charles poses as a high school teen and attempts to syphon off the life force of a local teen girl, Tanya Robertson (Mädchen Amick).
The film also features cameos from King, who regularly pops up in the movies based on his work, as well as Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, Joe Dante, and John Landis.
“I don’t remember the plot; I don’t remember who I played. I should probably look it up,” Hamill remarks. “I’ve always been a Stephen King fan, and if it came out after The Shining, because that’s one of the first things I ever saw. I remember I saw it in Westwood, [Calif.,] the very first week it opened. I walked directly from the theater to a bookstore and went home to read, What the hell did I just see?“
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Mark Hamill as the Major in ‘The Long Walk’
Since Sleepwalkers, Hamill acquired proper King roles in last year’s The Life of Chuck and this year’s The Long Walk, playing a military leader in a totalitarian vision of America.
The former, directed by Mike Flanagan (Hamill’s showrunner on Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher), is a feel-good story involving the end of the universe. Hamill played Albie Krantz, the father of Tom Hiddleston‘s Chuck, who tries to convince his son that the world needs fewer dancers and more accountants.
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The latter, opening Sep. 12, sees the star now as the Major, who heads the Long Walk, a lethal competition that occurs once a year. In the film, from director Francis Lawrence and based on King’s 1979 novel, 50 young men volunteer to participate in the event wherein they all start walking, and anyone who slows risks execution.
“The real heart and soul of the picture is their experiences in these extraordinary circumstances,” Hamill says of the main characters, “their highs, their lows, their triumphs, their tragedies, the alliances, the rivalries. That’s what the movie’s all about.”
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