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Watch this Mark Hamill 'Star Wars' interview – from 1976

mimisabreena Monday, December 04, 2017 Mashable

A new video of Mark Hamill has surfaced – or rather, an old video. So old, in fact, that it predates the release of the first Star Wars movie.

Hamill and Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz visited WorldCon's MidAmeriCon in 1976 to talk about their bizarre and ambitious upcoming picture. They're welcomed to the stage with polite applause which feels far, far away from the echoing screams of Comic-Con Hall H.

In a Q&A during which Kurtz says he hopes Star Wars won't be over two hours, where someone asks about "light swords," and where Hamill pokes fun at his own line "Gee, it's lucky we had these compartments" and refers to Chewbacca as a "big ape man" ("More like a dog, or a big furry bear with a dog's nose. Very huggable," adds Kurtz), what's truly remarkable is looking back into a room where no one had any concept of how Star Wars would eventually change the world. Read more...