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Sam Brigger

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2001 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

The movie itself might be indescribable, but one thing that is describable is the mustache you have in this movie, which is like a Wilford Brimley, soup-straining, walrus kind of mustache. So is that yours? Did you grow that thing?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

But that's okay. We just listened to this clip, and what the listeners aren't seeing is how the speech is going over with the young Chuck, and his eyes are as big as saucers. I mean, it's a nice speech you're making, but you're basically kind of crushing his dreams. You're like, don't be a dancer, be an accountant.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

But that's okay. We just listened to this clip, and what the listeners aren't seeing is how the speech is going over with the young Chuck, and his eyes are as big as saucers. I mean, it's a nice speech you're making, but you're basically kind of crushing his dreams. You're like, don't be a dancer, be an accountant.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

But that's okay. We just listened to this clip, and what the listeners aren't seeing is how the speech is going over with the young Chuck, and his eyes are as big as saucers. I mean, it's a nice speech you're making, but you're basically kind of crushing his dreams. You're like, don't be a dancer, be an accountant.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, I was wondering, did you ever get that version of that speech when you were young and full of acting ambitions?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, I was wondering, did you ever get that version of that speech when you were young and full of acting ambitions?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, I was wondering, did you ever get that version of that speech when you were young and full of acting ambitions?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So you were doing research on the people.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So you were doing research on the people.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So you were doing research on the people.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Mark, I thought we would start this part of the conversation with a cameo you did on The Simpsons. You're appearing, I think it's a comic convention. You come out of a spaceship dressed like Luke Skywalker, and with a lightsaber, you knock over a bunch of cardboard cutouts of stormtroopers and also Wonder Woman for some reason. Let's hear the clip.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Mark, I thought we would start this part of the conversation with a cameo you did on The Simpsons. You're appearing, I think it's a comic convention. You come out of a spaceship dressed like Luke Skywalker, and with a lightsaber, you knock over a bunch of cardboard cutouts of stormtroopers and also Wonder Woman for some reason. Let's hear the clip.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Mark, I thought we would start this part of the conversation with a cameo you did on The Simpsons. You're appearing, I think it's a comic convention. You come out of a spaceship dressed like Luke Skywalker, and with a lightsaber, you knock over a bunch of cardboard cutouts of stormtroopers and also Wonder Woman for some reason. Let's hear the clip.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, let's use this as a segue to talk about being Luke Skywalker a little bit. I think when you auditioned for Star Wars, you came in and didn't know what you were auditioning for, and you auditioned both for Carrie and Star Wars at the same time. Is that true?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, let's use this as a segue to talk about being Luke Skywalker a little bit. I think when you auditioned for Star Wars, you came in and didn't know what you were auditioning for, and you auditioned both for Carrie and Star Wars at the same time. Is that true?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

Well, let's use this as a segue to talk about being Luke Skywalker a little bit. I think when you auditioned for Star Wars, you came in and didn't know what you were auditioning for, and you auditioned both for Carrie and Star Wars at the same time. Is that true?

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So, you know, I imagine as an actor that an important part of your job and something that helps you do your job is like the feedback you receive from other actors in the scene, like from their energy, from their expressions, like you probably work off of each other. But for you, some of your most famous dramatic moments. scenes in these Star Wars movies, you're acting opposite a puppet.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So, you know, I imagine as an actor that an important part of your job and something that helps you do your job is like the feedback you receive from other actors in the scene, like from their energy, from their expressions, like you probably work off of each other. But for you, some of your most famous dramatic moments. scenes in these Star Wars movies, you're acting opposite a puppet.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

So, you know, I imagine as an actor that an important part of your job and something that helps you do your job is like the feedback you receive from other actors in the scene, like from their energy, from their expressions, like you probably work off of each other. But for you, some of your most famous dramatic moments. scenes in these Star Wars movies, you're acting opposite a puppet.

Fresh Air
Best Of: The Innovation Of 'I Love Lucy' / Mark Hamill

And even though it's Frank Oz, great puppet master, was that difficult? Was it difficult to stay in the moment when you're expressing yourself to Yoda, who is not a real person, of course?