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hi this is Mark Hamill and this is the wired auto complete interview oh hungry are you to the commissary you are going [Applause] how did Mark Hamill get the role of Luke it was an audition I went in and I talked to was Brian De Palma and George looking for people for Star Wars George never said a word I came out and I said who was Brian De Palma's assistant he said that was George Lucas now I'd seen American Graffiti but it was just a general talk you know tell us a little about yourself it wasn't until later that I got an audition script to do a screen test I didn't read the whole screenplay until I got the part so I had those 10 12 pages to read I couldn't make out what what is this is this like a parody of Flash Gordon who talks like this it was a lot of technical jargon it was a scene in the cockpit with Han Solo I did the screen test with Harrison and sometimes you know how you did like oh I really nailed that one that one I had no clue my agent said how did it go I said you know I don't know it went let's see what happens and you see what happened how did Mark Hamill get the role of Joker I just read for it and I had a confidence that really helped me because there was this big outcry that Michael Keaton was going to play Batman oh he's Mr Mom he's a comedy actor I mean they hadn't even seen him and they didn't realize how great he would become but there was great controversy so when I went in I thought you think they're going to hire Luke Skywalker to play The Joker the fans will lose their minds I was so sure that I couldn't be cast I was completely relaxed a lot of times there's performance anxiety because you want the part here I knew I couldn't get the part so who cares and I drove out of the parking lot thinking that's the best Joker they'll ever hear and it's too bad they can't cast me and as soon as they did cast me that reverse I was like oh no I can't do this it's really one of my favorite characters to play because he's insane and because he's insane he's never boring it's just fun to play a character that creates chaos wherever he goes how long has Mark Hamill been married oh my gosh I'm not good at math but we got married in 1978 so blue and 40 something years and it potentially I think it's going to work out fingers crossed how to do Mark Hamill Joker Laugh you know I get asked to do this I'll be in the grocery store I'd be Toys R Us do the laptop left well first of all you have to warm up it's like a car engine if you just rip it'll hurt your throat and plus there's no subtle way to do it so I'm standing in Toys R Us laughing maniacally and people are like Cassie me worried looks like what's that old man doing to that poor 10 year old kid but uh I do get asked to do it a lot oh I noticed oh okay we're good there okay what was Mark Hamill first job I worked at McDonald's when I was 15 and a half years old and I was very proud to make minimum wage what school did Mark Hamill go to well my father was in the Navy so we moved all the time I went to nine schools in 12 years graduating from yokama high in Japan what is Mark Hamill's favorite food uh that's hard to pick I like fruit it's basic it's healthy and you don't have to worry about watching your waistline so much what does Mark Hamill look like now I look like this shame isn't it here we have whom our camel who did Mark Hamill play in The Flash the trickster sort of a variation on the Joker which uh I'm very familiar with as well who did Mark Hamill voice in Futurama I think I was the Hanukkah zombie it's been a while so you might catch me if I'm off there who was Mark Hamill in The Little Mermaid well I did two episodes of the series in one I played Hans Christian Anderson writing The Little Mermaid which was interesting because that was sort of a history lesson and in the other episode I played Sebastian's brother which was a lot of fun who did Mark Hamill play on General Hospital I played Kent Murray who was the nephew of Jesse Brewer Emily McLaughlin she was one of the main characters I wasn't a real fan of soap operas but everybody there was so nice and it was a great education to learn how to find your light how they hit your marks and I was on for nine months which was perfect and I still have great memories of working there who is Mark Hamill's father my father is William Thomas Hamill he was a career naval officer and I was the middle of seven children he wanted me to follow his footsteps and go into the military so sadly I disappointed him in that regard but hopefully I've made up for it and by the way he wasn't that impressed with Star Wars you know what really impressed him when I was on The Bob Hope Christmas special wow now my son has really made it right here's the is Mark Hamill is Mark Hamill nice I try to be that's Mark Hamill Chucky I did do Chucky in a reboot of Child's Play I'm not Brad Durer if he's the original Chucky in the original uh serial Killer's soul is transplanted into the toy in our version he was a artificial intelligence where somebody took off the safety measure so that he had no restraint and it was a different approach because he was an innocent in the beginning and he just learned the wrong things but I really enjoyed doing that project is Mark Hamill Fire Lord ozai yes I am I remember reading the first group thinking this thing is going to get canceled in four episodes because it's too smart and it said it ran many many seasons reasons it was really gratifying to hear that parents like to watch it with their children because it talked up to Children rather than talking down to them and it was a very very smart show is Mark Hamilton Kingsman yes I did a small role in Kingsman and it was the very first one it was nice because it was just a nice character turn I love character parts and uh I wasn't responsible for carrying the movie that was other people is well so far but today is Young so let's wait and see is Mark Hamill in Adventure Time I Think I did an adventure time but I can't for the life of you tell you what character it was once you started doing animation I don't know I'm sure over a thousand I don't know Parts the first one was 92 I guess with Joker but I remember when the kids were small we'd be watching Cartoon Network and I go wait a minute I think that gangster crab is me and you'd listen and go yeah it is because they don't tell you when they're going to be on and when you do animation it takes six months for the animation to come back so there must be hundreds and hundreds of jobs I did that I've never seen because it's hard to keep up with them all okay and Mark Hamill sing I did a Musical on Broadway and everybody in it was more talented musically than I was the way I described it when I auditioned was look I can play Finch and I haven't seen in Business Without Really Trying I'll never play Billy Bigelow and Carousel because I just don't have the vocal chops but it's if it's an acting singing role that's something I can do but I haven't done it very often does Mark Hamill have a Hollywood star you know I did I got one and I was stunned I mean what an honor so there you go and now Carrie Fisher got one very recently and apparently we're going to be neighbors so that's nice because she's always fun to be around was Mark Hamill a figure skater you know you're thinking of Scott Hamilton and we follow each other on Twitter because he's told stories where he's got mistaken for me and I've told stories where they ask me about you know ice skating so the answer is no I'm not Ken Markham will speak Japanese I went to uh 11 to 12th grade at yokama high school and when I lived there I got pretty good but the problem is unless you keep it up every day a lot of it falls away so I've forgotten more than I knew if I watch a Japanese television station or when we've gone back to Japan things start coming back to me but you got to keep up with it you can't just let it uh idle or you forget it forever just for example I have a dog named Mark I did an episode of The Big Bang Theory and the way they brought me into the show was they had Simon helberg's character find my lost dog so when he returned it to me he freaked out he said oh you're Mark Hamill and I said hey you doing to this dog I'm holding how are you doing bark and it was a setup for Simon did you get jokes about his name is spark barkhamel I get that question a lot now because we do have dogs we have Millie Mabel and Trixie also known as bat might because of her ears but I don't have a dog named Bart I should though okay Mark Hamill latest movie The Machine with Bert Kreischer and it's unlike anything I've ever done it's uh Bonkers it's funny it's an action comedy and I really hope you go see it in theaters because comedies play so much better with an audience don't wait two months and sit and watch it on your couch get out there laughter is infectious look all I'm trying to find is one million 11 780 viewers to see it in the theater is that too much to ask Mark Hamill Yoda impression here's the problem when Frank was doing Yoda everybody started doing Yoda the cameraman the Caterers wardrobe stand-in stunt doubles oh hungry are you to the commissary you are going and Frank eventually had to say look I'm being influenced by your impressions and I want to keep it pure so I could see exactly what he was talking about we all stopped on a dime and the rest is history Mark Hamill hobgoblin it's hard to get Typecast in animation but I did after the Joker they wanted me to play nothing but these maniacal super villains it was hard to try and make sure you stayed away from the Joker with hobgoblin I I put him down lower and made him a little more Sinister in that way but it's really fun doing animation because the definition of the character actor is an actor who disappears into their role they don't see the actor they see the character well animation does that for you they don't see the actor so you can play all these parts that you would never get on camera you know I never got to do dialects on camera I mean I think by law only Meryl Streep is allowed to do dialects so I got to play Australian and Italian and all these different characters that I love animation and the animated voice Community is so wonderful they're so welcoming and so talented these these people I'm telling you I went to sessions so entertained that I thought you know in any other circumstances they could have charged me a cover charge for being at that four hour session that's so much fun it is to do animation Mark Hamill video gaming roles I played video games when my kids were small but when they outgrew them I didn't continue on so I don't really play video games the most memorable recently were the Arkham Asylum games with Kevin as my Batman as he always was people will come up to me and say when you get to level three if you do I said you know I hate this first year bubble I have no idea what you're talking about because no I don't play them you don't have to play them to voice them mark Samuel Harrison before impression all I can say is I did him once on I think it was Seth Meyers the next time I saw him he said hey I don't sound anything like that I said yeah I know you don't sound anything like that but his voice is so minimal it draws you into what he's saying like you know he says it in such a soft-spoken manner that alone I think is a part of what makes him so riveting as an actor but I'm lucky to have worked with him were you surprised by any questions yeah I guess a few I mean you play video games I hate to have to admit in front of everyone no I don't play video games without you out of your mind you should have told the Dorothy Hamill story oh well I got pulled over one time for going over the speed limit the guy said license and registration I gave it to him now that we Dorothy Hamill was on the cover either time or Newsweek I can't remember which and it happened to be on the passenger side I was driving alone and the officer when he said Dorothy Hamill is that is any relation I said yeah she's my sister and I get it all the time and so sick of hearing about her skating career and he goes oh could you get me her autograph and I said do you want her autograph and he gave me his information I probably shouldn't admit this he'd probably come find me and arrest me but when I got home I signed the magazine cover best wishes officer whatever your name is XOXO Dorothy Hamill because we do spell it the same way and he ripped up the ticket and saved myself what like forty dollars now I hope the statute of limitations has run out otherwise I'm in big trouble [Music]

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Length: 13min 45sec (825 seconds)

Published: Mon May 29 2023