Mark Hamill was ready to flee the US after Donald Trump’s election to President — that is, until his wife Marilou York pulled a kind of Jedi mind trick.
“She’s very clever,” Hamill told The Times, recalling that he gave York a choice between London or Ireland. “She didn’t respond right away, but a week later she said, ‘I’m surprised you would allow him to force you out of your own country.’ That son of a bitch, I thought. I’m not leaving.”
Hamill and York married in 1978. “She was a dental hygienist and I went to get my teeth cleaned and I was just enamored from the get-go,” he said. “I asked her out and I thought she better have a sense of humour. We went to see Annie Hall and she got it. She was an oasis in all the madness.”
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And he definitely finds Trump maddening. “The bullying, the incompetence, the people in place… The only way I can deal with it without going crazy and wanting to open my veins in a warm tub is to look at it like a thick, sprawling political novel,” Hamill said. “It’s entertaining in a way because this could actually be the end. Our status in the world has been crippled and that will reverberate for decades. Making Canada a 51st state? Do you know how offensive that is? And then taking over Greenland and renaming the Gulf of Mexico. The distractions are hilarious.”
Next, Hamill will star in Stephen King’s The Long Walk, due out September 12th. Revisit our June interview with the acting icon.