Mia Sara Fangirled Over 'Adorable' Mark Hamill on Their New Movie: 'I Get to Be Married to Luke Skywalker!' (Exclusive)
She called the Star Wars icon "adorable" and was excited her character got to be "married to Luke Skywalker"
Sara, best known for costarring with Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, had not appeared on the big screen since 2011 prior to taking a part in Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptationActress Mia Sara may have acted alongside several Hollywood legends — but she wasn't immune to fan-girling over Luke Skywalker himself.
In a recent exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Sara — the actress best known for playing Sloane Peterson opposite Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in the 1986 teen classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off — said she was thrilled to learn that she'd be acting alongside Mark Hamill in the new movie The Life of Chuck.
Asked if she was a Star Wars fan, Sara, 57, says, "I grew up in the seventies. Are you kidding?"
"I couldn't believe when [director Mike Flanagan] told me that it was Mark Hamill [who] was going to play the grandpa, I couldn't believe it. I get to be married to Luke Skywalker. It's the greatest thing," she adds.
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While Sara tells PEOPLE she "tried" to be cool when she saw Hamill on set, she admits it was difficult.
"We had so much fun actually. Because we knew we had just this little short moment, but we really had fun just trying to convey the loving relationship. And when it was over, we just thought, 'Oh, that's not enough. We want to do more,' " she says.
Sara posed for photos alongside Hamill, Flanagan and costars including Tom Hiddleston, Benjamin Pajak, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Siegel, Karen Gillan, Carl Lumbly and Annalise Basso at the film's Los Angeles premiere on June 2.
The film is adapted from a novella written by Stephen King. Speaking to PEOPLE, Sara says she felt inspired to end her hiatus from acting to work with Flanagan, 47, and his wife Siegel, 42, citing the pair's 2021 Netflix horror miniseries Midnight Mass as "one of my favorite things I've ever seen."
"We've been such fans, and we met socially, he and the magnificent Kate Siegel, and he just said, 'Well, don't you ever really want to work again?' " Sara recalls. "And I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' He said, 'Well, what if I offered you something?' I said, 'Well, okay, if you offer me something, I'll do it.' "
The Ferris Bueller star's role in The Life of Chuck comes more than a decade after she last appeared onscreen in 2011's Dorothy and the Witches of Oz. In 2013, Sara appeared in a short film titled Pretty Pretty.
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