Hamill says sorry for Skywalker comments

Actor Mark Hamill has taken to Twitter to apologize for comments he made about the direction of his character, Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

“I regret voicing my doubts and insecurities in public,” Hamill wrote.

“Creative differences are a common element of any project but usually remain private. All I wanted was to make a good movie. I got more than that.”

Hamill, who added the hashtag #HumbledHamill, said Last Jedi director Rian Johnson “made an alltime great one.”

In an interview with Vanity Fair in May, Hamill recounted a discussion he had with Johnson after reading the script featuring the full return of Skywalker in The Last Jedi.

“I, at one point, had to say to Rian: ‘I pretty much fundamentally disagree with every choice you’ve made for this character. Now, having said that, I have gotten it off my chest, and my job now is to take what you’ve created and do my best to realize your vision,’ ” Hamill recalled.

During an interview with the Spanish outlet SensaCine, an emotional Hamill said: “I almost had to think of Luke as another character. Maybe he’s Jake Skywalker — he’s not my Luke Skywalker. But I had to do what Rian wanted me to do because it serves the story well.”

In an interview with the New York Daily News, Hamill called himself “the host body to which this character has been assigned.”

“That’s the problem. When I disagree with the direction of the character, I get a little mouthy,” he said.