[Audition] Mark: Fear is their greatest defense.
Here!
[Audition] Mark: I doubt if the actual security there
[Audition] is much greater than on Aquilae or Sullust,
[Audition] and what there is, is most likely
[Audition] directed towards a large-scale assault!
Who talks like this?
Have you ever wanted to learn the secrets of the Jedi?
Well, you could crash-land on a remote swamp planet
in hopes of finding the ghost of Master Yoda,
or you could just come have dinner with me.
That's right.
To support a great cause, I'm teaming up with Omaze
to fly you and a guest out to LA for
the ultimate Star Wars experience:
dinner with me and two tickets to
the red carpet premiere of The Rise of Skywalker.
And since you'll be among the first to see
how the Skywalker saga ends,
what better thing for us to talk about at dinner
than how it all began.
To give you an idea of what that might be like,
I though I'd go back to the very beginning...
my original audition.
I'm not sure I'm ready for this.
All right, and here we go.
[Audition] Harrison: Am I blocking him?
[Audition] Is he hard to see?
Harrison's so considerate.
[laughter]
Look at that haircut.
That's the biggest thing I contributed to
the look of Luke Skywalker,
that Beatle-esque haircut.
[Audition] Mark: You can't find Organa Major?
[Audition] Harrison: I found it, it just ain't there.
This was the first day I ever met Harrison Ford,
by the way.
He's always been one of my favorite people.
I'm so lucky to have been able to work with him
because he was the personification of cool.
I mean, he was Han Solo.
He's better in the screen test than I am,
and he's off camera,
so that should give you some idea.
[Audition] Mark: I think there are some things
[Audition] we should talk about.
Classic line.
[Audition] Harrison: I'm beginning not to like you.
"I'm beginning not to like you."
That's so George.
It's in the "I have a very bad feeling about this" category.
[Audition] Harrison: How are we gonna get to the Rebels
[Audition] before she breaks?
[Audition] Mark: She's part of the Royal Family.
[Audition] They won't get any information from her,
[Audition] she knows the art of mind control.
"She know's the art of mind control."
It's, come on.
And by the way, you know,
I went to George before we filmed,
just before we filmed this
because I was trying to figure out...
I said, "Are we sort of sending up—"
"Is this like a parody of Flash Gordon or...?"
And George said, "Um, well, um...
Let's just shoot it, and we'll talk about it later."
What it meant was:
"Let's just shoot it, and we'll never talk about it later."
[Audition] Mark: This robot has information related to
[Audition] the destruction of Organa Major,
[Audition] you'll be able to name the reward.
Notice I said "robot," not "droid."
That would come later.
[Audition] Harrison: Seems interesting.
[Audition] Mark: Uh, Hans, maybe you should just drop us off.
[Audition] I'm sure we'll—
Did I call him "Hans"?
Why did I call him "Hans" instead of "Han"?
And by the way, all through the shoot,
people were going:
Is it "Han" or "Hann"?
Is it "Chewbacca" or "Chew-back-ca"?
We'd ask George 'cause he didn't really care.
He said, "Well, just say it the way you wanna say it."
"It'll be regional."
I mean, can you imagine all that he has on his mind
trying to get this movie off the ground,
and we're nitpicking about
how you pronounce the name of the Wookie.
[laughter]
Prioritize, folks.
[Audition] Harrison: What's going on?
Carrie called that my freshly punched look.
That sort of bewildered, clueless Luke.
When Carrie came over,
she was the final piece of the puzzle.
She was effortlessly feminist, you know?
She wasn't some shrinking violet
that needed a guy to come rescue her.
In fact, she made Han and Luke look like chumps.
She was anything but what I expected.
I mean, I sort of thought,
"Well, she's 19. That's barely out of high school."
And in many ways
she was a lot older and wiser than I was.
[Audition] Mark: Don't you realize what's going on?
Oh! Show a little fire there, Luke.
[Audition] Harrison: Kid, you take the glory
[Audition] and the good intentions. I'll take the reward.
[laughter]
[Audition] Mark: Fear is their greatest weapon.
[Audition] Harrison: I'm not afraid of anything.
[Audition] George Lucas: Okay, good.
"Okay, good."
When I did this scene,
I thought Han Solo was the lead character
and I was the sidekick.
Harrison was a bona fide leading man,
so I thought he was Captain America and I was Bucky.
So when I eventually got the script
and I opened to the front page, it said:
The Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the "Saga of the Whills"
I realized, oh my gosh!
It's through my eyes.
Weeks later, I got a call from my agent.
She said, "They want you for Star Wars."
I couldn't believe it.
And we just had so much fun
running around the Death Star,
being trapped in the trash compactor.
There wasn't a day that we didn't laugh a lot.
So now it's your turn to make some memories.
Go to omaze.com/mark
and enter now for your chance to attend
the premiere of The Rise of Skywalker
and to join me for dinner.
But the best part of all is that
every donation benefits NAI.
It's an incredible organization
designed to prepare underprivileged students
for admission to college.
So hurry up!
Go to omaze.com/mark, donate
and may the Force be with you.