Luke shouldn’t have trusted his feelings, which apparently have been warped by Hollywood and voicing the Joker all these years.
The 60-year-old actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” films, made his remarks to OnTheRedCarpet.com at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend while reminiscing about a show he used to watch as a kid – the Disney-produced 1950s series “Zorro.”
“I knew nothing about Mexican history or anything. But just the idea of a privileged person fighting for the underdog – there’s something very romantic about that,” Hamill told OnTheRedCarpet.com. “I guess it goes back to Robin Hood. People that are fighting for the middle class and for the Have-Nots. It’s something that we see even playing out in the presidential race.”
“And if you don’t vote for Barack Obama, you’re insane,” he added. ”Cause without him, I think the middle class will completely disappear. And you look at Romney and I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but I think he’s like The Thing he only imitates human behavior. He’s not actually human himself.”
Says a man who spent the most successful part of his career playing opposite a guy in a black plastic imitation samurai helmet, who used someone else’s voice. When he wasn’t working with Muppets.
Hamill added that he is a “lifelong Democrat.”
If you believe enough to vote Republican, then you need to believe enough to stop supporting Hollywood in any way, shape, or form. I think it should be clear that the entertainment industry is a lost cause, and we should just let them find customers as they can. I’m sure they’ll do just fine overseas.
Our forefathers made personal sacrifices in the lead-up to independence. One of those was non-importation agreements–they would not buy English goods unless England recognized their rights. And so it should be here.
If you care enough to vote Republican, or are Republican, and you support Hollywood with your money, you are fools.
I have not been to a theater but once or twice in twenty years. This is not a sacrifice. They are THAT bad. I don’t even watch em when they come round to the telly. Once in a while I’ll watch an old grey movie but usually fall asleep during those as well.
I agree completely. I don’t watch what passes for entertainment either on screen or television and I haven’t for years. Mostly it’s a boycott, but also, it bores me.
There have been a few exceptions. ‘Master and Commander’ comes to mind.
And I did go see ‘Act of Valor’ and purchased it on BluRay as well, but that’s a whole different category.
I am SO relieved. I no longer must carry the burden of feeling sorry for this piece of human debris over his never getting a job after Star Wars. Maybe he sweeps up for George Lucas or something these days.
Actually, Mark Hamill has had an extremely successful career as a voice actor and he’s worked steadily for his whole career. He probably earned more off residuals while I typed this than you’ll make all week.
He wasn’t successful by himself. He and his fans might think that he is talented but the rest of us had everything to do with his success and therefore, we are owed a percentage of his earnings from the voiceover work he has done since 1977.
Pay up suckah!
That’s fine for Hamill, and I’m very happy for him. Attacking his supposed lack of success (which you rebutted) should not be the point of a comment here. What matters in this context is that his political comments and worldview are typical malignant, flaky Hollywood decadent leftism. He should shut up and go back into the soundbooth.
That much I agree with completely.
If he’s making more than us, that’s unfair! He’s one of the evil rich! His wealth must be confiscated and distributed to those of us who are disadvantaged! Money is the most important thing there is! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
“If he’s got a career in voice acting, he didn’t do that all by himself. Somebody helped him with that, building the infrastructure that allowed him to get to the studio and read lines into a microphone.”
Mark Hamill’s Joker is still the best Joker portrayal by anyone, including Jack. I look forward to pirating an audiobook of the Killing Joke, if that project ever takes off!
To double post, for which I apologize–people need to just start drawing lines in the sand, and then acting on them when they inevitably get crossed. For the left has no intention of stopping unless forced to stop.
Defund them.
You would think, that as a life long democrat, he would have received plenty of job offers… Maybe he needed to be more outspoken like Sean Penn and that Farrell goober from MASH.
Apparently, Hamill has forgotten who Zorro was fighting. I don’t believe that the Alcalde was a businessman…..
Nor were Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Robin Hood legend — they were the State, and the arm of the State, respectively.
January 11, 1977. Hamill in auto accident and suffers head trauma. Becomes life long Democrat soon thereafter.
Hey Mark – 1977 called, said you left your career sitting on the counter next to a big cup of “shut the hell up”.
It seems he has been a lifelong idiot, too.
#5 Bill – absolutely correct! Zorro was fighting the Alcade, who was a representative of the King of Spain. In other words, fighting a far-away government that existed because it was sucking the life out of the little guy! Way to go, Luke!
You can’t really expect better from a life-long Democrat though. They have to maintain a life of total ignorance of reality or else they would be drummed out of the party. If any of them bothered to learn just a little economics and real history (not that America is to blame garbage kids get these days), they’d know that Obama’s policies are wrong and have never worked anywhere. If they paid attention to real current events they could see this happening real time with their own eyes. But no, they just heed and parrot the party line because of they don’t they’re out of the herd and being a real individual is just too terrifying for them.
What IS it about Comic Con this year? Are these Lefties so desperate to hitch their wagon to Obama’s falling star? Don’t they realize that they are cutting their throats with a lot of very fed up Conservatives?
Not the way to win the culture war, guys.
And, by the way, if anyone were to make a comment like that, “I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but I think he’s like The Thing he only imitates human behavior. He’s not actually human himself.” about Obama would be deemed completely disrespectful and inappropriate. No matter how accurate. =’[.]‘=
Why do these guys have to ruin the few non-left-wing hollywood movies for me by making these inane comments? (Do you realize even “Rambo” was basically left-wing in the 60s sense?)
Wow, it’s racist to even hint that The Won wasn’t born in the US.
But somehow it’s OK to say that Romney isn’t even human.
Of course this bit: “And if you don’t vote for Barack Obama, you’re insane,”
I always thought Comic-Con brought out some unique individuals from their Mom’s basement, but I didn’t believe they’d be on the red carpet.
The whole “comic / sci-fi fans live in their parents’ basement” is one of the laziest and most easily disproved prejudices around, just by the way. It’s right up there with “conservatives are racist”.
I mean next thing you know, we’ll end up saying that every Hollywood actor turns out to be a knee-jerk liberal….
…it’s not that it’s true, it’s just that it’s the safe way to bet…
Certainly I don’t believe that all Hollywood actors are knee-jerk liberals. They just have to put on that routine to get work.
I just find some of their comments so outrageous that if it were a line in a script, no one would believe it.
This is why I entertain my son with John Wayne DVDs.
Hmmm….anyone have a list of work this guy has been involved in over the years?
I mean everyone knows he played in Star Wars, and I think there was an execrable film called “Corvette Summer” I think he was in, but other than that I’m drawing a blank.
It’d be useful to know what he was involved in BEFORE seeing the film credits at the end.
Big Red One.
The de-humanization of conservatives is critical to the murderous contempt with which they are held in the deeply moral and compassionate lefty universe.
Inconsistency is a feature not a bug. They make their living off of fantasy, after all. How can anybody be surprised?
That’s what leftists do. Look back over the last century and you will see that leftists called for a seat at the table then once they got it, pushed everyone else away from it. As part of that they ridiculed and dehumanized their enemies. It was very easy to fire up their street thug mentality constituency to hate and violence. If they can get away, start with a murder here, burning shops and houses there, then eventually come the camps.
I wish your father had NOT had any ‘good left in him’ and had let the Emperor kill your dumb little ass.
– Quinn?