Mark Hamill opened up about being unable to remember that he made a cameo in Stephen King’s 1992 film, Sleepwalker.
The Star Wars alum made a short appearance in the horror film about shape shifting vampires as Sheriff Jenkins.
In an interview with the Entertainment Weekly, he looked back on his role in the film.
Despite the fact that the film stands out as the first film that King wrote for the big screen directly, rather than first as a novel, Hamill still admitted that he “totally forgot” that he was in it.
“If I remember right, Mick Garris, the director, asked me, ‘Could I do a small role?’ I loved him so much, and I thought, ‘I’ve gotta do it to help him,’ ” he recalled.
He continued, “I don’t even know if I got paid, but I totally forgot about it.”
“If there’s not a premiere of a movie, sometimes they’ll slip through, and I don’t see ’em. I think I eventually saw it, but it was so long ago, I can’t remember much of it,” the Invincible star added.
Hamill then went on to express his fondness for the horror author.
“I’ve always been a Stephen King fan, and if it came out after The Shining, because that’s one of the first things I ever saw. I remember I saw it in Westwood, [Calif.,] the very first week it opened,” Hamill shared.
He further said, “I walked directly from the theater to a bookstore and went home to read, ‘What the hell did I just see?’”
Currently, Hamill is starring as a fearsome character known as The Major, in The Long Walk. It is Hamill’s and King’s latest collaboration since the novel is an adaptation of author’s 1979 novel.
It is set to release in theatres on September 12.