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

Published: June 13, 2025

Mia Sara, best known for her role as Sloane Peterson in the 1986 teen classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has confessed to losing her cool when she realized she'd be acting alongside Mark Hamill in her new project.

"I grew up in the seventies. Are you kidding?" Sara, 57, said in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. "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.

Sara, who hasn't appeared on the big screen since 2011, said she was thrilled to learn that she'd be acting alongside Hamill in the new movie. "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."

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.

For more on Mia Sara and her new movie, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now!