The Star Wars icon plays a very different kind of character in Mike Flanagan's latest series.
While most of the cast of The Fall of the House of Usher is made up of Mike Flanagan regulars, the acclaimed filmmaker turned to a genuine genre icon to bring one of Edgar Allan Poe's pivotal characters to life in his new Netflix series. Flanagan enlisted Star Wars legend Mark Hamill to play a ruthless lawyer and fixer named Arthur Pym, who comes from Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
"I was intrigued by the fact that they would consider me for this part," Hamill told Tudum."Why would they think of me? That's thinking outside the box, and I love doing quirky, unexpected things and things that I haven't done before." Hamill also enjoyed what Poe did with the original character of Arthur Pym in his book. The adventures of the younger Pym are referenced in Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher, having influenced the older, darker version of the character Hamill set out to play.
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