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Mia Sara Fangirled Over 'Adorable' Mark Hamill on Their New Movie: 'I Get to Be Married to Luke Skywalker!' (Exclusive)

Actress Mia Sara may have acted alongside several Hollywood legends — but she wasn't immune to fan-girling over Luke Skywalker himself.

Mia Sara says she may have lost her cool when she realized she'd be acting alongside Mark Hamill in her new project 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 adaptation 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." 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.

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