Joe Copeland was Mark Hamill's stand-in during the filming of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. While working at a gas station in the Yuma, Arizona, area during his school's spring break, Copeland was scouted by a member of the Jedi production team. The woman asked Copeland how tall he was and gave her a phone number if he was interested in being an extra for a film. Copeland was eventually selected from a pool of 250 Yuma-area residents to take on the job of stand-in for Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker during filming in the Arizona desert.