Mark Hamill looks unrecognizable in his new Knightfall role
The actor plays a grizzled vet who trains new initiates to the Order. Sound familiar, Star Wars fans?
It's a big hairy deal: Star Wars star Mark Hamill's familiar Luke Skywalker face is almost buried under old-age makeup and a long gray beard for his role as Talus in the medieval drama Knightfall, a historical-fiction show about the Knights Templar on the History channel.
Luke, I am your...great-great-grandfather? Tom Cullen, left, plays Landry, and Mark Hamill, right, plays Talus in the second season of Knightfall.
Hamill's character is a veteran of the Crusades who was imprisoned for a decade and now trains new initiates to the Order. Those last seven words should reverberate with anyone who saw Hamill as Old Luke in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
"We look forward to offering our viewers a grittier, darker 'Knightfall' in season 2 and welcoming Mark to the cast," said Eli Lehrer, History executive vice president of programming.
Knightfall was recently renewed for a second season, and in addition to Hamill, is adding Tom Forbes and Genevieve Gaunt to the cast. The Knights Templar were a Catholic military order active from the 1100s to the 1300s, and according to History, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades.
Hamill posted that he was picked up at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, his 67th birthday, to work on Knightfall, and shared a cast photo as well as a photo of the surprise birthday cake he was given.
HOW I SPENT MY BIRTHDAY-5AM Pick-up for @KnightfallShow who acted unaware of it-then ambushed me w/🎂-8PM Home w/@MarilouHamill @chelseahamill brother Pat for Chinese food & best gift EVER: #LaurelAndHardy marionettes! Then watched Busy Bodies & Come Clean🤣 pic.twitter.com/XiiQqDURot
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 26, 2018
