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Not that long ago at the Academy Awards, in a galaxy known as Hollywood, spacey stars Oscar Isaac and Kelly Marie Tran joined Luke Skywalker to hand out statues with sass.

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" didn't get any Academy Award acting nominations, but that didn't mean the space saga didn't have a presence at Sunday night's Oscars.

Stars Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Kelly Marie Tran and BB-8 all gathered in Hollywood's Dolby Theatre galaxy to present the awards for best animated feature to "Coco," and best animated short film to "Dear Basketball."

Hamill's been joking about the presentation almost since his inclusion was announced.

So..... anything good on TV tonight?

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) 4 Mart 2018

Hamill was a Force-fully fun presenter, dropping a joke about his Jedi retirement plan. "I'm here to pick up my monthly check under the Jedi pension plan," he cracked. "Apparently they never end."

Jedi pension plan? What, is that a 401(k2d2)?

— ThePeerless (@ThePeerless) 5 Mart 2018

And as he opened the first envelope, Hamill murmured to himself, "Don't say 'La La Land,' don't say 'La La Land.'"

Isaac got in a joke too, about how he could understand rolling droid BB-8. "I'm fluent in Yiddish," he said.

brb calling my mom to tell her oscar isaac just said he's fluent in yiddish https://t.co/vC5gAb6Fgh

— Leigh Lahav (@leighlahav) 5 Mart 2018

BB-8 is a member of the tribe?? I will take Oscar Isaac’s word as canon and accept that droid as a Jew and a Yiddish speaker.

— Rachel Goldfarb (@RachelG8489) 5 Mart 2018

But some thought the Star Wars stars could've shone more brightly.

Oh, #Oscars...you get Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac and Kelly Marie Tran onstage and all you hand them is lame dialogue about robot discrimination and Jedi pension checks? This blerd is about to lose it....

— Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) 5 Mart 2018

source:CNet News

The Star Wars actor hopes the Tattoine farmboy just ditched his cloak and is letting it all hang out at a nudist colony.

It's hard to say goodbye to an old friend, especially if the friend's been with you since 1977. Actor Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga, says that despite that infamous scene in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," he's clinging to other theories.

"I refuse to believe that he's gone," Hamill told the BBC Friday. "My theory is he just teleported to somewhere else and left his robe behind. He teleported to a nudist colony, that's what I'm hoping."

In the film, an exhausted Luke, a Jedi legend who's come so far from the Tattoine farmboy he once was, dies peacefully on Ahch-To. It's a double whammy for fans of the original cast, since actress Carrie Fisher, who played Luke's twin sister Leia, died after "Last Jedi" finished filming, and won't be in the yet-unnamed Episode IX.

Fans will get to see Hamill again on Sunday, as he'll be one of the presenters at the 2018 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, along with castmates Kelly Marie Tran and Oscar Isaac.

As for Episode IX, whether or not Luke makes some kind of (flashback? dream sequence? Force ghost?) appearance, at least fans can be rest assured the movie has a script.

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source:CNet News