I don’t think you guys understand how awesome Mark Hamill is. Mark Hamill is so awesome that he can turn Luke Skywalker and The Joker off and on and make them have a conversation together
Mark Hamill is incredibly talented and I will fight anyone who tries to say differently.
Mark Hamill gets bitten by a snake on the set of The Empire Strikes Back
This is why Mark Hamill is one of my all time favorites. He could’ve easily said something negative about the snake, even jokingly, but instead he takes responsibility for scaring it during its shed. He shouldn’t have dropped the poor thing, but I’m sure it startled him too.
The original Star Wars trio are really epitomizing the three ways to successfully be a Cool Older Person ™ on Twitter
Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself): the Bernie Sanders / George Takei type. Completely coherent, correct grammar, uses punctuation so u can tell he’s old. Polite replies to Star Wars asks and theories. Nice dad vibe overall.
Carrie Fisher (@carrieffisher): the Cher type. Incoherent shitposting and huge emojis. Still manages to make a point and always be nice. Bashes Donald Trump. Crazy lovable aunt vibe overall.
Harrison Ford: no twitter. Stays away from all our goddamn nonsense. truly a wise man.
“The way Mark Hamill remembers it, it was during a production of The Elephant Man (”or maybe Amadeus”). It was the early ‘80s, just after the Empire had struck back, and he was up there on stage, contorting his body in the classic John Merrick style (or composing music), when he noticed something in the audience. Something glowing. Back then, years before mobile phones, audiences simply didn’t glow. “Someone was wearing a home-made shirt with all the Star Wars stuff on it,” he recalls. “It was battery operated, lit up and very distracting. The usher said to me, “I’ve been doing this for 40 years and I never imagined I would have to say, ‘Madam, would you mind turning off your blouse?”
Hamill laughs. It says a lot about his near 40-year relationship with Star Wars that this is one of the most trying incidents he can remember. “People say, ‘Oh, it must be such a drag to be associated with one single thing,’ but it’s such a positive,” he says. “It can be taxing when you’re trying to focus on other things and it’s the 800lb gorilla in the room…but it’s a warm, cuddly gorilla.”
Mark Hamill interview, Empire issue 319, January 2016.
