Mark Hamill’s Jedi diet tricks

The latest “Star Wars” episode brings back a svelte Luke Skywalker, the longstanding and beloved character played by Mark Hamill — but the new look didn’t come without a Jedi-like effort.

According to reports, Hamill, 66, lost somewhere between 44 and 50 pounds and trained for 50 weeks when he returned to the franchise in 2015 — even though he only appears briefly at the very end of “The Force Awakens.”

“I had to drive in my car to Santa Monica, [Calif.,] park my car, go to the gym. They called it physical training ... which is a euphemism for torture,” he told the Daily Telegraph at the time. He summed up his diet: “No sugar, no dairy, no bread, no fun.”

“Last Jedi” gave him more screen time — and more motivation to slim down. He told Vanity Fair earlier this year that his diet was strict: “You just cut out all the things you love. Something as basic as bread and butter, which I used to start every meal with. Sugar. No more candy bars. No more stops at In-N-Out.”

The strict diet also forced a reckoning with his mindless eating habits, such as snacking on Wheat Thins.

“I would sort of idly, absentmindedly eat these things while watching Turner Classic Movies, and ‘Oh, I ate the whole box!’ ” he told Vanity Fair.

Christopher Vincent, the co-founder of the Santa Monicabased Altus Health, oversaw the fitness and food regimen for the cast of the film, but declined to comment specifically on Hamill.

“It’s monitoring how [actors like Hamill] recover through things like blood work and seeing how they do, and a lot of that recovery was through nutrition plus vitamins and supplements,” says Vincent.