Star Wars actor Mark Hamill tweets about photo of Zelensky with X-wing starfighter on T-shirt
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“The force is strong with Zelensky,” the 70-year-old actor wrote, adding a drawing of a lightsaber with a beam painted in the colors of the flag of Ukraine, and the hashtag #StandWithUkraineNow.
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Hamil’s tweet quoted another tweet by user @jtp802, who posted a picture of Zelensky in his now trademark olive-green military T-shirt, which this time had a Ukrainian “Tryzub” trident symbol on the left sleeve. An iconic X-wing Starfighter from the film franchise is superimposed on the Tryzub.
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The picture was taken on May 4, informally known as “Star Wars Day” as the date echoes the famous line from the films: “May the Force be with you.”
In one of the original film’s best-known scenes, Hamill’s character Skywalker pilots an X-wing as he destroys the evil Galactic Empire’s doomsday weapon – the huge planet-killing space station the Death Star.
