Borneo Post-Sarawak Section: Leisure Ad Value: RM 2,334 1-Jun-2021 Size : 166cm2 PR Value: RM 7,003 Robert Englund responsible for Hamill playing Luke Skywalker Robert Englund responsible for Hamill playing Luke Skywalker m Nightmare On Elm Street' star Robert Englund was responsible * Mark Hamill playing Luke Skywalkerm 'Star Wars'. 囈en casting took place for :he first film in George Lucas'sci- "saga, 1977's 'Star Wars： Episode ，二 A New Hope； Robert was sharing an apartment with Mark a?d he told him he thought he should get in contact because he 纖Id be perfect for the heroic Mark took his roommates :呼詈叫d went on to play the Jedi Knight in six movies. Robert - whose most famous :rol' is as supernatural 料e： Freddy Krueger - said: Mark Hamill was my roommate ^nd 1 said to him, 'You know George Lucas is doing another 果?vf and you might be right for 屮:So My Once Upon A Time in Hollywood' story is that Freddy Kinger told Luke Skywalker to 兽 11 his agent and he got the part. His agent hates me telling this story, because she insists that she^ready submitted him for The 71-year-old actor had found out about Star Wars,because he had been put forward to play space smuggler Han Solo in the franchise. Th§ part ultimately went to Harrison Ford, but Robert isn't t00 disappointed that he didn't get to join friend Mark, 69, in the space-set blockbusters. In an interview on the Inside You' podcast, the horror ic空 said: "I went to go in for an audition for the Frederic Forrest role in 'Apocalypse Now； I was too young but I got in for the jurfer because I surfed, so they brought me in for the surfer. I did not get that. — Bang Showbiz.