Star Wars: How Freddie Krueger convinced Mark Hamill to listen to Luke Skywalker

Over the years, we’ve thought we’ve largely walked away from the Star Wars footage in terms of behind-the-scenes anecdotes. We had it all wrong. Next comes to us from actor Robert Englund, who was passed down to descendants for his incarnation of the legendary. Bugiman Freddie Krueger.

Invited as part Oz Comic-Con Which took place in 2016 in Brisbane, Australia, Robert Englund spoke to a site reporter Strength materialThe reason for its existence, which is shown at the top of the home page, could not be clearer: “Secrets, Stories, and Source Material of Star Wars.” Thus, the actor told how he helped his friend Mark Hamill play the role of Luke Skywalker when he had just fallen for an audition he had just gone through to play Apocalypse Now.

“Actually, I was auditioning to play Apocalypse now and I was very old. But I thought I would really get that role. I had 78kg of muscle, I had long blonde hair on my back and when. I went to audition, wearing skinny, khaki levy jeans, , Green military t-shirt.I even had the famous patches you wear around your neck.So I had a somewhat military look, but it also had a surfer.

I could not get to the end of this part and as they were leaving they were saying, “Wait Robert, they’re doing something in the hall with George Lucas!” It gave me a boost when I heard his name because I loved American graffiti. It is an ideal film. Excellent film about me.

Suddenly my eyes lit up and I went to see what was going on in the hall. Star Wars production at the time was looking for an actor for the role of the older Han Solo; “They wanted a character like the old uncle you see once a year, you know?”

But there’s also a bit of a grimace soup for Englund: “They just took polaroids from me. At the moment, I must have been very young and I do not think Harrison Ford was in the ranks at the time to play the character …

Anyway I took the audition text, walked down the street, got drunk, sat down next to the Elvis Presley signature sound mixer and just stood there, for an hour, to drink … Then I went home, old-fashioned. Destroyed sports car. “

For the record and for fun, below is a cult surfer scene with Colonel Kilgore Apocalypse now …

The next Freddie Krueger came to audition for a (small) cult role Apocalypse now ? This is already a pleasant anecdote. But the interested party eventually delivered two for the price of one.

“At that time, Mark Hamill often slept in my house” Said Englund; “He was a TV star, he was filming a TV series in the street, I think his name was Texas WheelersWith Gary Buse. So he was always at my house and I knew when he was there when I saw his cowboy boots behind the door.

I find myself at home with a beer, watching a Mary Tyler Moore show. There I said: “Behold, look at these texts , I think you would be ideal for this role man! This character is a bit like the prince from space and it’s George Lucas who is making the film! “You’re an actor he loves!

Then he called his agent. The rest is history. This is a real story. But the Internet still wants to transform him, with “Robert Englund rejecting Luke Skywalker for Mark Hamill.” I would never allow such a thing! Hell, and think that Mark never paid me rent! “