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lordjedi
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"BRING BACK STAR WARS" Channel 4 UK documentary coming soon...
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Date created
27-Apr-2007, 3:36 PM
Originally posted by: C3PX
Have any of the other actors pissed on Star Wars other than Ford? Mark Hamill has always been real good with SW fans, even produced some of the comics I think. I have no idea how Carrie Fisher feels about it, but she did do the commentary for the 04 DVDs. Ford is the only one I know of who cringes everytime he hears those two words used together in the same sentence. I think Lucas went through a phase were he was saying that out of all the work he has done the only thing people ever ask him about is Star Wars and he seemd annoyed about that. Oh, and Sir Alec Guiness would be another who was annoyed at that, but he was big long before SW, so IMHO he had every right to piss on it if he felt like it.


When has Ford pissed on SW? Just because he doesn't want to only be known as Han Solo, doesn't mean he's pissing on it. Hamill hasn't been nearly the successful actor that Ford has. Hamill's greatest work since SW has been in voice work for cartoons. That's not a bad thing, but he hasn't been playing in other movie roles. Ford may not have been as successful if he weren't in SW, but he was doing quite well for himself before it came along. In fact, if it weren't for Spielberg, Ford probably wouldn't have done nearly as well since he's the one that wanted Ford for Indiana Jones and Lucas wanted someone unknown.

Besides, at Comic-Con 05 (might've been 04), Hamill was promoting his new comic and he didn't want to hear anything about SW. Yeah, he said it was fun, but he also said he was trying to move on from it.

Of any of the one's you mention, I know of only Sir Alec Guiness who absolutely hated hearing about SW.