WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill dropped by the White Home on Friday for a go to with President Joe Biden and walked away with a pair of the president’s aviator sun shades and a higher respect for the workplace.
“I like the merch,” he stated, taking off the glasses throughout a fast look on the White Home every day press briefing following his go to with Biden. Hamill, 72, well-known for enjoying Luke Skywalker, kidded with reporters that he’d take a number of questions — so long as they weren’t about “Star Wars.”
“I used to be honored to be requested to return to the White Home to satisfy the president,” he stated. He is been to the White Home earlier than, throughout the Carter and Obama administrations, however he’d by no means checked out the Oval Workplace, and that was fairly one thing, he stated. Biden confirmed off pictures and different Oval Workplace objects, Hamill stated.
Hamill stated Biden instructed him to name him “Joe,” to which Hamill supplied an alternate suggestion: “Can I name you Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi?”
“He appreciated that,” stated Hamill, who additionally voiced the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Sequence.”
Each Hamill and the White Home have been imprecise about his motive for visiting. However Hamill, a Democrat and Biden supporter with an enormous social media following, has been posting in regards to the president’s reelection marketing campaign this week.
“Might The First Not Quench Your Thirst For Biden’s Re-election!” he wrote on Might 1.
On Friday he posted, “Might The Third Be Absurd That The Man Who Tried To Steal A Honest Election Is Allowed To Run Once more,” a reference to Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Might 4th is unofficially “Star Wars” Day, partly due to the well-known Jedi phrase “Might the drive be with you.” The pun goes, “Might the fourth be with you.”
Hamill additionally lent his voice to “Air Alert” — a downloadable app linked to Ukraine’s air protection system. His voice urges individuals to take cowl every time Russia unleashes one other aerial bombardment on Ukraine.
