Despite the fact that Mark Hamill has never gone on after Star Wars to have a stellar Hollywood career (something many people mock him over and use him as the but-end of jokes for), the fact of the matter is that Mark Hamill has consistently been one of the most level headed and down to earth celebrities I’ve ever seen.
No, he hasn’t been in big blockbuster films (aside from Star Wars), but when you look over what the man has actually been doing with himself for the last 20 years, it’s an impressive list of stuff that anyone one of us would wish we could have done. From Broadway, to animated shows, doing his own film, developing his own TV projects… it’s a fascinating list.
Now, the good folks over at Guardian have a great little interview with him that I found fascinating. Here’s an excerpt:
AP: But when it’s all said and done, do you have some pride to have played one of the most famous heroes of all time?
Hamill: You know where it comes from? It’s not so much from the industry … but the 9-year-old kid who looks at you like a cross between Superman and Santa Claus. And you’d have to be a really, really hardened cynic not to be moved by that. Not only that, but just doing the interviews for this animation series, I can’t tell you how many people have said, “I got into the business because of that movie.” … I totally understand that because I remember walking out of “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) and saying, “I don’t know how they got those skeletons to fight, but someday I want that to be my job.
It really is a nice quick interview. I suggest heading over there to give it a read.
