Overview
- In a new Polygon interview, Hamill said viewers can decide how to read Luke’s sexuality, noting the films never define it.
- Hamill has voiced this view for years, including in 2016, and he says Star Wars invites personal projection onto its characters.
- Authors Timothy Zahn and Claudia Gray said at MegaCon 2026 that Lucasfilm has rejected attempts to restore Mara Jade to canon.
- Mara Jade became Luke’s partner in 1990s novels but vanished when Disney reset the Star Wars timeline, which many fans still contest.
- Coverage split along ideological lines, with Polygon treating Hamill’s stance as inclusive and right-leaning OutKick mocking it as culture-war posturing.