Mark Hamill Finally Names His Favorite Star Wars Line After Nearly Five Decades
Nearly 50 years after first igniting a lightsaber, Mark Hamill finally names the Star Wars line that matters most to him—and why it still hits hardest.
Nearly five decades after first swinging a lightsaber, Mark Hamill just picked his favorite Star Wars line. It is not a big Force speech or a Skywalker revelation. It is the little warning that keeps popping up when things are about to go sideways.
"My favorite from the space movies was, 'I have a very bad feeling about this.' And they gave it to a character in every movie - somebody else said it!"
Hamill dropped that during a chat with ScreenRant while he was out promoting The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, where he is voicing the Flying Dutchman. Yes, Luke Skywalker is haunting Bikini Bottom now. That tracks.
Why that line?
Hamill first played Luke Skywalker in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope, and he is pretty connected to the saga at this point. Part of the charm for him is that Luke says the line in A New Hope, and then it kept evolving into a tradition across the movies. A version of "I have a very bad feeling about this" shows up in every Star Wars film, tossed to different characters in totally different scenarios. It is simple, it is flexible, and it quietly stitches the whole series together.
The bigger picture
Star Wars is loaded with quotable lines, but Hamill zeroing in on this one makes sense. It is not about a single hero or era; it belongs to the franchise as a whole. The line has survived reboots, time jumps, and tonal shifts, which is kind of the point. And it fits Hamill perfectly: a guy whose legacy is baked into Star Wars history, still out here lending his voice to new worlds long after the original run. Some traditions stick for a reason.