https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqSM_I5q-cA
The dynamic between talent and filmmaker isn’t always a working experience that is open and honest. Sometimes, a director needs to get the performance they need and want for their movie, and if it means telling an actor what they need to hear, so be it. Such is the case of Mark Hamill on the set of The Empire Strikes Back.
But what director Irvin Kershner likely never foresaw was social media and talented bakers. If not for Twitter, and this fan’s delightful, severed wampa arm cake, there’s a good chance the tale of betrayal and misleading on the set of Empire would’ve never been heard.
Here’s the cake in question:
https://twitter.com/justjenn/status/934864249653903360
Which triggered Luke Skywalker himself into a mini-exposé on the set of Empire:
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/934985725526732801
Poor Hamill. There have been reports of him disagreeing with Luke’s direction in The Last Jedi, and now we know why he’s been so weary of directors such as Rian Johnson — he’s been played before. As he said, “When filming scene I was assured my lightsaber swipe toward [the] camera (creature not on set). [It[ would simply singe fur [to] scare him off. Horrified to later see amputation & unnecessary cruelty. Wampa was HUNGRY (not EVIL). Luke would never do this!”
All these years later and Hamill is still upset that he was duped into amputating a wampa. Definitely something to think about when you get to this scene during an upcoming viewing.
(Via Gamespot)