Star Wars star Mark Hamill reveals worst advice he ever gave
Maybe don't take acting-career tips from Luke Skywalker is what we're saying.
- Co-author of two Gen X pop-culture encyclopedia for Penguin Books. Won "Headline Writer of the Year" award for 2017, 2014 and 2013 from the American Copy Editors Society. Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism.
Mark Hamill, left, offered Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, some career advice. It didn't go well.
Mark Hamill has found great success in acting, playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga and voicing Batman villain the Joker in animated series and video games . But he probably shouldn't get a job as a career coach anytime soon.
When Twitter user @jodijill praised Hamill's wit on Friday, Hamill revealed just why he can't let himself get a swelled head about what he says.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger asked me for advice when he was just starting out," Hamill revealed in a tweet Saturday. "I told him to lose his accent for a wider range of roles & to change his last name since no one could pronounce it. He did the opposite & became one of the biggest stars EVER😳#TrueStory."
Arnold Schwarzenegger asked me for advice when he was just starting out. I told him to lose his accent for a wider range of roles & to change his last name since no one could pronounce it. He did the opposite & became one of the biggest stars EVER😳#TrueStory https://t.co/6HMs1PNDsu
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) August 11, 2018
Hamill first played Luke in 1977's original Star Wars , a year when Austrian-born Schwarzenegger was still best known for his Mr. Olympia bodybuilding success. After some smaller roles, Schwarzenegger broke through with a starring role in the 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian, with the first Terminator film coming out in 1984 -- accent and name intact.
Fans had fun with Hamill's ignored advice to Schwarzenegger. One envisioned what it would've sounded like had Schwarzenegger listened, writing, "Arnold Smith in ...The Predator. 'Get thee to thine helicopter!'"
Another joked about other bad advice Hamill might have handed out, writing, "Other advice you probably gave
-- (1982) Forget Apple; Invest in (Commodore) 64!
-- (Summer 1989) Bus tours of the Berlin Wall!
-- (1999) Internet is huge! This Pets.com looks like a sure thing!"
Arnold Smith in...The Predator.
— /grego (@Someguygrego) August 11, 2018
"Get thee to thine helicopter!"
I would watch that version.
— Leopold Stotch (@themightybfhb) August 11, 2018
Other advice you probably gave:
— Joe Johnston (@taskboy3000) August 11, 2018
- (1982) Forget Apple; Invest in Commador 64!
- (Summer 1989) Bus tours of the Berlin Wall!
- (1999) Internet is huge! This https://t.co/uyyxFPGtlq looks like a sure thing!
Now I'm going to do the opposite of what your profile says and always give up and aim high. And DM you! 😜 pic.twitter.com/jW3mzXc9Eh
— Natalie H (@eilatan82) August 11, 2018
— Andy Mauger (@AndyMauger4) August 11, 2018
As for Hamill, it was announced July 27 that he'll appear -- in what form isn't yet known, due to Luke's apparent fate in The Last Jedi -- in Star Wars: Episode IX, which comes out in 2019.
