'When I went in [for the Joker role], I thought, 'You think they're gonna hire Luke Skywalker to play the Joker? The fans will lose their minds!,'' Mark Hamill said. 'I was so sure that I couldn't be cast. I was completely relaxed.'
As Hamill recalled during a recent Wired video interview, Keaton’s casting as Bruce Wayne/Batman earned backlash from comic book fans, considering he was more known as a comedic actor in films such as “Mr. Mom” and Burton’s own “Beetlejuice.”
Seeing Keaton overcome backlash to become an iconic Batman gave Hamill the confidence he needed that comic book fans would be willing to accept the Luke Skywalker actor as the Joker. Hamill said the Joker is one of his favorite characters to play “because he’s insane, and because he’s insane, he’s never boring. It’s just fun to play a character who creates chaos everywhere he goes.”
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