Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
IF IT IS de rigueur these days for Star Wars actors to make vmmm-vmmm noises during rehearsals for lightsaber duels, it didn’t occur to Mark Hamill when prepping Luke Skywalker’s epic Cloud City showdown with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. “It hadn’t become as iconic as it is now,” says the actor from his Malibu home. “Like pew, pew, pew [the sound of a blaster] — the lightsaber sound is something that’s developed with Star Wars becoming saturated into the pop-culture DNA we all share.”