The Return of Mark Hamill

Plot

The never-before-told, mostly true story of Mark Hamill’s early days working the Jack in the Box drive-thru and his bittersweet departure. It's a story of fate, friendship and redemption, decades in the making. Oh, and it’s totally free. The digital copy will be emailed upon checkout.

At age 18, Hamill, a student at Los Angeles City College, worked the drive-thru at Jack in the Box, where he practiced impersonations.

“I had worked at another fast-food place when I was like 16, so I knew the routine,” as Mark Hamill tells it, “, but I always aspired to work that takeout window.”

And the window made for the perfect stage to hone his acting chops: “I thought you should talk like a clown, which is what I did,” Hamill remembered. “I thought it was amusing — my boss thought it was annoying.”

So annoying, in fact, that the impersonations resulted in Hamill getting fired.