Mark Hamill Has "Star Wars" Fans Sleeping On His Front Lawn | Letterman
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Mark talks about dealing with "Star Wars" superfans, whether he would ever play Luke Skywalker again and more.
(From "Late Night," air date: 6/20/83)
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I met Mark in Pismo Beach, CA in 1989 when I was 18 years old. I was driving through town on a motorcycle road trip and stumbled upon him filming a movie there. It was super late at night after they had finished shooting and there wasn't a single person around except him and me just chatting on the side of the road by my bike for a few moments. It was the most pleasant exchange you could hope for considering I knew every line and sound effect from Star Wars, word for word since I was a little kid. He thought it was way cool I was driving my 1978 Honda Goldwing down the coast staying in KOAs and having the time of my life. He asked me where I was from and I proudly told him "Walla Walla, Washington." He shot right back with: "There's a lot of alliteration in that!" One of my favorite memories.
what a cool story
Ah, I really enjoyed reading this :)
A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts.
Walla Walla is pretty nice, and not too far away from snake river, I enjoyed riding there
True that! Thanks for commenting!!!@@ryth-2401
So amazing how differently everyone talked to each other back then. What a class act!!!
Yeah, it really feels like we've lost culture in a lot of ways. Nothing's expected of anyone, you can do anything
It also helps that Mark is clearly damn smart and has a great vocabulary here. Tracks with his brother being a doctor
So true! Not all polished and rehearsed like now. And the audience are so much quieter, really listening rather than waiting to respond and whoop it up.
@@MasterChiefWiggum right
I've listened to Hamill speak before, but not when he was younger. I get the feeling that of the big three (Hamill, Harrison, and Fisher), Hamill was developed beyond his years, so self-assured, well-spoken, and insightful. Love watching these old interviews.
It's really interesting to hear Mark Hamill be so brutally honest about how his success with Star Wars was a double-edged sword, and how much of the industry still looked down on special effects-driven blockbusters in 1983, even with all the success that films like Jaws, ET, Raiders and Star Wars had attained by that point.
You would never hear an actor talk like that these days, as everyone now has a small army of corporate-approved PR minders and is told exactly what to say in interviews ("such an honor to be part of Star Wars", "I've been a Marvel fan since I was a little kid!").
He was just 32 years old at the time and it´s clear that Star Wars had been both a blessing and a curse in his life. As Carrie Fisher used to say, "I have to pay George Lucas 5 bucks every time I look at the mirror".
Actually, he said he was 31 at the beginning of the interview.
Can you think of a young actor these days who is this well spoken and thoughtful? It's rare
@@commanderkeen3787 And humble.
A curse? Mark’s got to play two of the most popular characters of our time - Luke and Joker. Not ever actor is so lucky in their life to be so loved and to have their name engraved forever in pop culture.
@mishynaofficial That kind of accolade doesn’t even sustain the most virulent narcissist indefinitely. Can you imagine going through your life being solely identified for something that occurred in your youth, and that truly isn’t representative of your identity at all, independent of your vocation? It’s not as if he truly have something to humanity that was valuable, like a novel, scientific advancement, etc. He portrayed a fictional character in a movie. That sort of legacy is completely useless.
Love listening to Mark talk! He was always so wonderful to listen to, just like a next door friend with simple yet interesting conversations and wisdom
Mark Hamill has such a great presence.
Kinda sad to see how aware he was of his own typecasting. You can tell it really bothered him.
Interesting how Dave is so zoned in on the interviews in the early days instead of making slight digs the whole time to keep himself entertained
Two of the cutest, sweetest people in the business: Mark Hamill and Jeff Goldblum
Luke speaks very well. Its sad to see he didn't get to show off his potential through other roles.
9:56 A third trilogy starting in 2011? Wow! He was 5 years off, but still. That's quite a prediction to make in 1983.
Lucas had it all planned out from the get-go. I had a friend back then that was a super Star Wars nerd -- not a simple thing in 1977-78 -- and I can remember him telling me all about it and how the original movie was actually Ep 4 ... and then after Empire comes out, lo and behold, Star Wars re-releases start to show "EPISODE IV" at the beginning of the scroll.
Growing up, I never thought I'd see Star Wars prequels, let alone sequels, and, yet, there was Mark, laying out the whole billion-dollar idea, on this modest late-night program, a month before I was born.
@@danimart3374 Oh you're just a whippersnapper.. I was a ripe 6 months old when this aired.
I am pretty sure Lucas had a better idea for a sequel trilogy than whatever Disney did. Lucas the kind of guy to always go forward, which is why the Prequels are so different visually from the Original Trilogy, then you have Disney doing nothing but nostalgia pandering with the visuals from the OG. Pure ridiculous.
@@danimart3374Letterman? Modest??
Excellent interview. Another side of Mark Hamill I've never seen.
Good lord - I just realized what day it was. May the Fourth ... be with you.
Mark looks like a kid in that interview.
Indeed, and his voice hadn't even changed yet 😁
In Hamill, we trust
I remember seeing him in Amadeus in
NYC!
My favorite part of the interview was his expectation that Star Wars would be forgotten in ten years….
Amadues is my favorite movie. I didnt know there was a stage version.
Is Dave wearing some sort of Star Wars helmet? Oh wait-that's his hair ;)
May the 4th be with you..
Reportedly Mark didn't get to play Mozart in the movie because Milos Forman couldn't see past Luke Skywalker.
Yeah, little did Mark know the typecasting he spoke of here would mar his work in Amadeus as well.
This is outrageous.
@@mishynaofficialit’s unfair
Studios looked a lot smaller and cozier in those days, and people were more respectful, not a bunch of outrageous loudmouths like now. I miss those days.
The talk of people never seeing Star Wars reminds me of a cartoon that came out when the first film became a huge hit. It has an old couple facing each other in chairs. The wife says "You know, I think we're only two people in the world who haven't seen Star Wars". Then the husband takes out a gun and shoots his wife and says "Now, I'm the only one".
I think he would have been great as Amadeus in the motion picture
Star Wars is the best movie franchise ever
@@williamw422 Which, given your comments here, I strongly suspect you of being.
And he was turned down for Amadeus the film because of his typecasting
Old School was awesome. So much better than when he went to CBS.
Amazing. This predates the movie release of Amadeus and in 9 short years Mark would be cast as the definitive version of the Joker in Batman: the Animated Series, thus, fulfilling his wish of having his "image mangled"... in the best of ways.
Okay but does anyone know why that lady was cackling when he mentioned that the ice cream was good?
Image he played joker at that age
31 then 70 today
10:00 Episode 1 came out in 1999, Mark says 2011. 12+ years off but said with confidence.
Rock me Amedaus
2011. He was figuring out JarJar
We didn't get his Jack in the Box story.
George is tired. That’s funny.
Such a nice conversation, and the sensationalized way that Frank Miller depicted this interview in The Dark Knight Returns is outrageous.
christ dave, get a haircut.
Use for the force Luke.
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That was a good interview. For some reason I've had a less than positive opinion of mark, and I dont know why.
He has changed in recent years.
I'm old af and wasn't even born yet :D
If you weren't yet born yet when this interview first aired, you're under 39, which is hardly 'old'. I on the other hand was already 24 when this aired in 1983.
@@rickpaul2531 Geez I was 18. I remember seeing Jedi with some friends on opening day near the end of grade 12. When the lights went out the crowd erupted.
"It'll probably be collectors items in another 10 years". LOL.
Great guest, great host, nothing more needs to be said.
Mr. Corvette Summer Mark Hamill!
Great interview. It is strange that the sincerity from Mark here is so absent in most other celebrity interviews. His honesty was refreshing.
He's the best Joker ever.
A third trilogy in 2011. That's pretty good. As the trilogy he's in begins in 2015. Great prediction.
I never liked Star wars I could not make it past the first movie. Transformers is for me & TMNT. The only thing I own Of star wars was a Attixtix Gift set containing both figures cross over at the time Transformers & star wars, They were both packaged together.. Lot of people ask me. "What's wrong with it?" I tell them Not my cup of tea. You don't have to like everything everyone else likes.
Here he's nearly 32. Ke Huy Quan is in the same boat now : his recent interview in Variety he said after his recent Oscar win, he has no Projects currently in the PiPeline.
first time seeing this, fascinating. The "Mr. Punk to you" was an amazing comeback.
Funny. He thought the hype would die down in about 10 years. I’m not really familiar with anything else he’s acted in other than Time Cop. I’ll have to search.
Try and find Corvette Summer, with Annie Potts. I’m not sure if he made that film before or after Star Wars. Not the best movie ever, but was a young kid who loved Corvettes, so I really enjoyed it.
@@johnschlaefflin2100 he was in some movie where he was a professor held hostage in a scene. Really not great… overacting… but I’m not an actor at all so 🤷
@@johnschlaefflin2100 1 year after Star Wars.
He's in no danger of winning an Oscar, but he's had a very good 2nd career as a voice actor.
@@johnschlaefflin2100 It's a fun, entertaining picture, to be sure. He was also in a good WWII epic called The Big Red One. I remember him talking about it on, I think, the Merv Griffin Show, when it came out. It was like the first thing he did after The Empire Strikes Back, and I remember he said the movie was "as far from Star Wars as you can get", meaning that it was a "serious film about WWII" as opposed to being a "popcorn movie" (as he describes Star Wars here).
Such a wonderful interview by both Dave and mark!! so honest on everything.. and I do not think I ever heard before Lucas thought a sequel would be in the 2010's!? And I am over 50! must not have paid attention, or this was the one and only time it ever came out?
Hamill mentioned it in another interview around this time
I wish that didn’t have to end.
See, back then they knew how to de-age actors, he looks so young.
😂
Badass
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