Mark Hamill Just Shared A Wild Story About Hooking Up With Carrie Fisher While Filming ‘Star Wars’

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Mark Hamill just revealed a tremendously entertaining 40-year-old secret. Turns out that while filming the original Star Wars, which came out in 1977, he and Carrie Fisher actually hooked up!

That must have been one crazy movie set because shortly before her unfortunate passing, Fisher revealed in her latest book The Princess Diarist, that she and Harrison Ford had a rather torrid affair during the filming of the movie as well.

Fisher, who was 19 at the time, and Ford, who was 33 and married with two kids, had a three-month affair that Fisher described as “so intense.”

Fisher and Ford obviously tried to keep their relationship on the down-low, but there was one when time Mark Hamill almost walked in on them doing the deed. They tried to play it off, but as Fisher said about it, “It was hiding in plain sight.”

Now, with Star Wars: The Last Jedi taking over theaters, Hamill himself decided to share his own tale of passion involving our precious Princess Leia.

Speaking recently to Hadley Freeman of The Guardian, Hamill revealed a few of his own not-so-little secrets.

First, he admitted that at the time, he had no idea Fisher and Ford were hooking up.

“Marcia [Lucas, Star Wars’ editor and George Lucas’s then wife] told me after we finished filming. I’m glad I didn’t know before, as it probably really would have affected me. By the time I found out, I just thought it was hilarious. But you know men – even if we don’t want to have a relationship, it’s just in our nature to jockey for affection,” he says.

Then he dropped the big one…

“Carrie and I were attracted to one another, but I knew from previous jobs that it would have been a bad idea [to get involved with someone on set]. But Carrie and I found pretexts. I remember one time – I’m sure alcohol was involved – we were talking about kissing techniques. I said: ‘Well, I think I’m a fairly good kisser. I like to let the women come to me rather than be aggressive.’ And she said: ‘What do you mean?’ Well, next thing you know we’re making out like teenagers!”

Wait, what? Luke and Leia?

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“Oh, yeah! Are you kidding me? We were all over each other!” he cackles. “But the one thing that drew Carrie and me back from the precipice was we kind of became aware of what we were doing and just burst out laughing. Which was unfortunate for me because the rocket launch sequence had been initiated,” he grins. And just like that, I spit my water all over Luke Skywalker’s knee.

You’re not the only one, Hadley. You’re not the only one.

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Check out the rest of the lengthy and fascinating interview over at The Guardian.

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