"I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family"
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Hamill punctures the myth of the actor as destiny. In an industry that loves to frame fame as fate, he casts his own stardom as almost incidental, a day job that happened to swallow the room. The line "I never saw myself so much as an actor" isn’t false modesty so much as a quiet reordering of status: acting is labor; authorship is freedom.
His real north star is Schulz, a creator who didn’t just perform inside a world but owned the pencil that made it. That reference does a lot of work. Schulz represents total creative control, a consistent voice, and the radical idea that a career can be both culturally enormous and physically small. Hamill isn’t longing for cartoons as a medium; he’s longing for sovereignty. "Create my own world" is the subtextual opposite of Hollywood casting, where your identity is negotiated by directors, studios, and franchises. It’s also a sly acknowledgement of the irony that he became famous for inhabiting one of the most dominant invented worlds ever.
The domestic details sharpen the intent. The studio at home, the no-commute life, being with family: that’s not a lifestyle flex, it’s a critique of entertainment’s constant extraction of time and presence. Coming from someone forever linked to a galaxy-spanning saga, the fantasy he admits to is disarmingly ordinary: not adventure, but autonomy.
His real north star is Schulz, a creator who didn’t just perform inside a world but owned the pencil that made it. That reference does a lot of work. Schulz represents total creative control, a consistent voice, and the radical idea that a career can be both culturally enormous and physically small. Hamill isn’t longing for cartoons as a medium; he’s longing for sovereignty. "Create my own world" is the subtextual opposite of Hollywood casting, where your identity is negotiated by directors, studios, and franchises. It’s also a sly acknowledgement of the irony that he became famous for inhabiting one of the most dominant invented worlds ever.
The domestic details sharpen the intent. The studio at home, the no-commute life, being with family: that’s not a lifestyle flex, it’s a critique of entertainment’s constant extraction of time and presence. Coming from someone forever linked to a galaxy-spanning saga, the fantasy he admits to is disarmingly ordinary: not adventure, but autonomy.
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