Squadron 42: Behind the Scenes - Mark Hamill

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   [Music] every medium is different you know with the motion capture it's almost like you have a camera on your face at all times and uh I'm I'm a newbie I'm I'm sort of getting just getting my sea legs you know since the last few days of production everyone's dressed exactly the same which is a wonderful equalizer because it doesn't matter whether you're sir Lawrence Olivier or a day player with no lines everybody's dressed exactly the same you have the little sensors that when photographed light up like a Christmas tree there's not really

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   makeup they make a face mask of yourself with the appropriate holes drilled and a spray paint these dots on you look like you're in the road company of cats you know playing spotty cat there's no dignity there is what I'm trying to say I can't take my eyes off his noodle I have great trust uh in in the people that are doing the heavy lifting I mean we talked about uh making sort of old man this kind of almost sort of crotchety Clint Eastwood character and that Mark's like well I think I kind of want to go more Lee Marvin on him follow my lead for once if he has an opinion you should listen and I'm like yeah that sounds great okay okay cool yeah let's play that leave Marvin I love leave Marin that's awesome idea First Take it was like with the growl like yeah that's going to be that's going to be an awesome old man can you better be on your way you can really tell how long

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   he's been doing this for and he's so experienced it's just wonderful to watch him work holding him off but not for long hurry the hell up the little like subtleties he can put in into his voice and the different inflections oh yeah the options he gives us where he can just like play a word slightly differently and it's a whole different meaning it's really cool where the hell are you where the hell are you where the hell are you and then he just cut loose and it was Luke Skywalker pissed off that he'd been wandering the universe all these years you know just like I'm not taking anything from anybody yeah he was he was spectacular 3 2 1 action it's really stripping down to the essence of what acting is all about it's

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   like we're playing Robin Hood or Zoro in our backyards when we were 9 years old it's it's all about pretending take off I'll see if mine's still flyable this is just a really elaborate technical version of uh game playing you played as a kid C you okay forget it I'm not drinking yeah I'll do all my drinking in my Caravan thank you yeah is that it I'll look at a monitor and raise my arms to see which which one is me is it me that's me it's the player in this case Ian Duncan who is like the camera listen kid just because you face death don't start thinking you're Invincible you're not we could all die really bring down the mood don't you I know we could all die WIP that smile

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   off your face you want to keep living kill anything that he throws against you that's the only way out of here