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Skywalker, The Joker, Now Chucky: Mark Hamill Takes On Another Iconic Character

The murderous doll comes back to life in the reboot of the 1988 horror classic Child's Play. "Good stories are meant to be told over and over," Hamill says of the remake.
Mark Hamill is the new voice of Chucky — the murderous doll is coming back to life in a reboot of the 1988 horror classic <em>Child's Play</em>. Hamill is pictured above in London in December 2017.

Mark Hamill remembers the first time he learned about voice acting — he was watching a Walt Disney special about animation and he saw Clarence Nash "this guy in a suit and a microphone" doing the voice of Donald Duck. "I must have been five or six and a light bulb went off in my head ..." Hamill says. "Suddenly it occurred to me that somebody gets up in the morning, goes to work, and does Donald Duck for his job. I want that job!"

Hamill has gone on to have some pretty incredible jobs — he played Luke Skywalker in he's the voice of, and now he'll be the voice of Chucky — the murderous doll — in a remake of the 1988 horror movie

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