Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits Blu-ray and DVD today and features 14 deleted scenes, two of which turned out to be important moments for Luke Skywalker. During a sit-down interview in Ireland last week, I asked actor Mark Hamill what he thought about these particular sequences -- which we hailed as two of the film's four best deleted scenes -- getting cut from the theatrical version of The Last Jedi. Watch the full interview with Hamill in the video above.

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Do You Regret That Luke Skywalker's Reaction to Han Solo's Death Was Cut?

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What Does the Caretaker Village Sequence Reveal About Luke?

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While Hamill was understanding about scenes needing to get cut, he was nevertheless disappointed by director Rian Johnson's decision to do so as these moments would have shown audiences another side of Luke the film otherwise didn't depict.The deleted scene titled "Luke Has a Moment" takes place on Ahch-To after Luke has learned the answer to his question “Where’s Han?” Luke enters his hut, where some of his belongings are laid out on a table, and allows himself a quiet but emotional moment. Given that Luke just learned of Han’s death moments before, this moment serves as a chance to show Luke grieving the loss of his brother-in-law and friend. (It’s also noteworthy that this deleted scene ends by cutting from Luke to Leia deep in thought, implying that she too is mourning Han. In the theatrical version, however, the cut to Leia suggests she’s fretting about the Resistance and the immediate peril they’re in.)"Yes, of course because it shows Luke was putting on a facade in front of Rey and even Chewie, that he was embittered and sort of a broken man," Hamill said. "And I think the fact that he could let his emotions out when he was by himself would have made an impact on the audience because it allowed them to grieve the loss of Han Solo just the way Luke felt it."But that always happens in films. You say, 'Oh, what about this scene where this happens or that happens?" because you want to give the fullest experience that you can. And like you say, it was brief enough that I was -- [chuckles] They had time for me to milk that big alien but to show any human emotion? Nah, we don't have time for that. But again it's not my call."Hamill did say it was "great" that the Blu-ray/DVD release not only offers fans 14 deleted scenes but that some are "not just snippets but full scenes."One of the largest deleted scenes is the "Caretaker Village Sequence" between Luke and Rey, which takes place following his recollection of how Ben Solo turned on him. They see boats arriving on the shores, which Luke says belong to a neighboring tribe that raids the Caretaker Village every month looking for supplies. Rey wants to intervene but Luke says that it's not the Jedi way, as the old tomes in the tree library would confirm. Rey doesn't heed him and bolts across the hillside and the rock-laden water, lit lightsaber in hand. She literally slashes her way into the Caretaker Village only to discover that it's not a raiding party at all but just ... a party.A livid Rey then confronts Luke, who can't help but laugh at having a joke at her expense. He tells her that her instinct to charge into battle is what the Resistance needs now and not "a failed old husk of a religion." Rey berates him, saying that the legend of Luke Skywalker was something she once believed in but now admits, "I was wrong." This rebuke visibly moves Luke. Perhaps in this moment he remembers he's not just Luke Skywalker, Jedi legend, but also that ace pilot who blew up the Death Star before he was ever a Jedi. The kind of person who would, like Rey, charge into battle to help save the day."Well, it's interesting because that's one of the lessons. I think they mentioned there were three lessons and people were keeping count. 'Wait a minute! We're missing a lesson,'" Hamill explained."I think Rian has lots of thought-provoking ideas in the film. It seems callous for (Luke) to just ignore it and not -- the old Luke would be just like Rey. He'd be lightsaber-blazing. I liked it because it shows his kind of mean streak sense of humor, when she comes back and says, 'Why did you just let me go off like that without telling me?' And I laugh. 'You ran so fast!' Because, again, it shows another side of him. Because he's pretty serious and dour so it shows that even though he has a mean streak he still has a sense of humor."For more of our coverage on Star Wars: The Last Jedi's home entertainment release, learn what Mark Hamill told us about George Lucas' original ending to Star Wars: Episode 9 , check out this new Last Jedi concept art featuring Yoda and Luke , find out Hamill's theory on what really happened to Luke at the end of Last Jedi , and discover these 10 new revelations about The Last Jedi from the movie's recently published novelization.