Mark Hamill may have cheated the Star Wars Instagram filter to get Luke Skywalker

He may have cheated the system just a tiny bit.
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Andy Moser
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Greetings, exalted ones. Mark Hamill — aka the Luke Skywalker from Star Wars — has discovered the Star Wars Instagram filter that gives you a random character from the movies.

Which "random" character did the filter give him? Luke Skywalker, of course, as if you didn't already know. What luck! Unless...

If we believe the hashtag Hamill used to caption the video, luck didn't have anything to do with it. "#ItActuallyTookMeMoreThan20Tries", Hamill wrote in the post. In our experience, there's no such thing as luck.


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This past week, Hamill deleted his Facebook to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow lies and propaganda in political ads on the social network. Given that Facebook owns Instagram, one has to wonder if Hamill, who may not be aware Facebook's ownership of Instagram, will ultimately delete his Insta, too.

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Andy is a fellow on Mashable's Culture team. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of North Florida in 2018 and moved to New York to pursue journalism in culture and entertainment. He can (and will) talk for too long about Star Wars and movies in general. His fear of stinging insects and 80+ degree weather will keep him inside forever. He wishes he were shorter.

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