No actor wants to be typecast. Is all i was saying. He wanted to be seen as an actor, not as Luke Skywalker a non existing fictional character.
He wanted to be treated seriously like Harrison Ford was after star wars and Indiana Jones he became a respected actor.
Making fun of the Joker role are you serious. Its likely he will be remembered as the best person not live action to ever play the role.
I pointed it out because it was something he did to live outside the Luke Skywalker shadow.
Like when he did the play Amadeus and wanted people to see him as as Mozart not Luke Skywalker.
Its funny because literally no one George Lucas included thought Mark Hamill would ever return to the role or that the sequel trilogy would be made.
I am talking about the modern era here, the production years of the prequels, not what they thought in 1983. Where George had a vague notion of doing sequels in like 1982 before his marriage broke apart and star wars cost him literally everything he cared for but his money.
As for the actor thing it makes sense were one an actor. Its like every time someone walks up to Sean Connery and asks him about being Bond, or Shatner about being Kirk. As if they did not play other roles. Same with Harrison ford always being tasked to talk about being either Han Solo or Indiana Jones.
Sometimes actors try to divorce themselves from a role and it ends tragically as in the case of George Reeves, or they embrace it as did Christopher Reeve when the heroism he showed in fighting to live after his tragic accident became woven into the heroic mythos of superman.