Via Vanityfair.com:

I tell you, if I had not been cast in Star Wars, I would have been there first day, first show,” Mark Hamill told me when I sat down with him earlier this year for an interview at his home in Malibu. And whoosh! Off he went into an ornately detailed remembrance-reverie of a youth spent reading Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, getting spooked by the stop-motion adventure films of Ray Harryhausen, worshipping Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, and collecting Superman comic books.

This didn’t square with my childhood impression of Hamill. In 1977, when he first rose to fame, he was the Star Wars phenomenon’s heroic prettyboy; he looked like a junior-tennis star who probably had a Björn Borg poster on his wall and no interior life. But, as it turns out, Hamill was a geek all along—something that has become more evident in recent years via his showy voice-acting roles in various animated series and his chatty, agreeable appearances at Star Wars events.

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