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INTERVIEWER: So, Mark, I'll start with you.
Sure, they always start with the star.
The movie star.
Oh, will you stop.
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If we have any time, we'll get to that Bit Player.
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He was a brilliant Hydra scientists
and he now has like a technological body.
I mean, he's been implanted into this robot like exoskeleton.
I mean, it's fantastic fantasy.
And he's a time traveler who's been locked in a 70 year battle
with Captain America.
And I'm excited because Black Panthers
coming into the storyline and I'm
a huge fan of that character.
See I'm just a comic book geek.
I mean, when I was a kid in the 60s,
I would read the Marvel Comics and Stan
created a real bond with his audience, you know,
in the bullpen.
He had that sort of snarky humor.
He would give away no prizes, because people are always
pointing out boo boos, and mistakes, and stuff,
and he really had a personality that
came across over the pages.
He's sort of this avuncular uncle you wish you had.
On television, it was Walt Disney.
In comic books, it was Stan the Man.
Excelsior!
If I knew he was going to speak so nicely about me,
I'd have been nicer to him.
I'm sorry for all the things I said.
I really do like you.
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He's terrible, because when I hear him read the lines,
when I hear how talented he is.
MARK HAMILL: Oh, stop.
STAN LEE: How he can do another dialect
and become another person, it's fantastic.
I read lines beautifully but only as myself.
I mean, if I had to be Baron Zemo
I wouldn't know how to do it.
That was pretty good.
But he becomes hums Baron Zemo.
That was pretty good right there.
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Well it was a thrill to meet him.
And over the years, I've seen him
in so many different occasions, at Cons and different events.
And I adore this man.
And I remember-- I have to tell the story again,
but I said to him, because I mean he just defies time.
You know?
I get older, he stays the same.
So I said to him one point, how is it
that you maintain this vitality and this youthful demeanor
and he said, well, Mark, I get up every morning
and worry very hard all day long.
I've never forgotten that.
That's great advice.
But you see even there, he added more personality.
All I said was I get up every morning and worry.
With him it's, I get up every morning.
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Well, first of all, he has to have
more than just an evil power.
There has to be something interesting about him,
his personal life, or what he wants.
Now I was telling Mark--
it is Mark? - Mark.
The other day--
Mr. Hamill to you.
All right.
You take someone like Dr. Doom, he wants to conquer the world.
Everybody considers him a terrible villain.
But if you think about it, you could go to a policeman outside
and tap him on the shoulder and say, Officer,
I'd like to conquer the world.
He can't arrest you, it's not a crime
to want to conquer the world.
So our villains, really, are not the kind of villains
that are so obvious.
You know, their just bad, let's kill them.
They have their own motivations, they
have their own differences, their own ambitions,
they're more interesting than the heroes I think.
I mean, you give me a good villain
and he'll probably do a great voice for it.
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Well I always try and see what his place is
in that particular script, what function does the script
require of that character.
Villains never think of themselves as evil.
That's a real misdirection.
You can't play evil.
They're misunderstood, they think that what they're doing
is what should be done.
And I love the complex characters
that Stan's written over the years
because they all have inner conflict and turmoil.
I mean, what set the Marvel Comics apart for me was
the fact that they had flaws.
They argued with each other.
You know?
Other superheroes were all Boy Scouts, all of them.
They didn't have any flaws.
And then you have Tony Stark, he's an alcoholic.
I mean, there were real life attributes that you
could really relate to.
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Reminds me of when I would read stories or tell stories
to the kids at bedtime with the lights
out, because they used their imagination.
And lose.
In nature the strong survive and weak go extinct.
WOMAN: Good.
Not being seen in animation, gives you incredible license
to make outrageous choices you wouldn't
make if you were on camera.
So it's liberating.
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I'd love to make this sound profound
and give you the difference between doing it
for live action and animation.
But as far as I'm concerned, there's no difference.
You just see the lines as best you can,
hope that they're anywhere near as good as Mark Hamill would
have said them, and that's it.
Captain America, Agent Carter, let's go.
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To me, the great appeal, the brilliant thing that I came up
with, is their rallying cry when they say, "Avengers assemble!"
I mean, if that doesn't get every little kid.
I just got chills.
You know, some little kid is being picked on by a bully
in the street, and all of a sudden
he says, oh my god, Avengers assemble.
I mean, it's become part of our life.
Yeah.
And I think that the world owes
me a little something for that.
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Well I think the cameo that's my favorite it the one
I did for Thor.
And I'm standing in a bar with him
and he's drinking this Asgardian drink, which is very powerful.
And I ask for a sip and he says, no, it would kill you.
And I insist, and he gives me a sip, and then the next scene
they're carrying me out.
Now you're saying to yourself, why
is this Stan's favorite cameo and you haven't
thought of the real reason.
It's the only one I did that is two scenes.
Wow.
So I'm hoping it does well.
Next time they'll give me three scenes.
You never know where it'll end.
I hope it never ends.
INTERVIEWER: Thank you, gentlemen,
so much for talking to you.
Hey, thank you, Mark.
It's been our collective pleasure.
Always a pleasure. Right.
Exactly.
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Oh, shut up.
I didn't say anything.
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