Mark Hamill Reveals He Refused a Role in “Disgusting” Horror Film: “I Really Resent the Fact That Some Human Being Thought of That Concept”

Mark Hamill is currently promoting his role in the Stephen King adaptation, The Long Walk, where he plays The Major.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Hamill admitted he wasn’t sure about returning to horror at first. “There’s no way I could even see this movie, much less be in it,” he said. He decided to join the project because he connected with the “real heart and soul of the picture.”

Despite his role in The Long Walk, Hamill says he is generally squeamish about horror. He shared an example of a producer who makes terrifying movies but can’t watch them: “There’s a producer of Saw. He can’t go see those movies. He produces them and gets all the profits, but he just can’t stomach watching them. I think that’s really funny.”

Hamill then talked about the infamous horror sequel The Human Centipede 2. When asked about being offered a role in the film, he was horrified. “Someone said, ‘They want you to be in The Human Centipede Part 2.’ ”

“And I said, ‘What’s The Human Centipede?’ They explained the premise to me, and I went, ‘Oh my God! Thank you for putting those images in my head, and I’ll never forgive you for doing so.’ But that was an easy one. I said, ‘No, don’t send the script.’ The premise alone — I’ll never see one, and I really resent the fact that some human being thought of that concept of sewing people together, mouth to a***. Goodbye, and never enter my life again.” He said.

For context, The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch body horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The story follows a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and surgically connects them to form a “human centipede.”

The idea, according to Six, came from a dark joke he made with friends, as well as inspiration from Nazi medical experiments during World War II. The movie premiered at London’s FrightFest in 2009 and received a limited U.S. release in 2010. It went on to spawn two sequels, Full Sequence (2011) and Final Sequence (2015), which were later combined into a single compilation called Complete Sequence in 2016.

Hamill’s reaction highlights why he is selective about his roles. While he embraces some horror projects, he draws the line at content he finds morally or physically repulsive. His honesty about.

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