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Pourquoi ?

Rien qu'avec l'intensité de son regard dans le précédent, il y avait déjà de quoi être rassuré (une scène muette qui repose sur lui, et il a assuré).

Il est franchement pas brillant dans la première trilogie, cela dit. Yeux de merlan frit à gogo.

(ce qui explique en partie sa carrière inexistante hors SW)

Hormis Ford, qui a un charisme naturel, ils sont tous mornes dans cette saga.

Non mais le mec est une vraie référence dans la doublage d'animation depuis son travail sur Batman, il a complètement renouvelé sa carrière grâce à ça. Et il y fait de l'excellent boulot...

C'est clairement un acteur très limité (ce qui explique en partie sa carrière inexistante hors SW)

Hamill thought there was no way they'd cast him as the Joker.

Tim Curry was originally hired for the Joker, but was fired after coming down with bronchitis, the actor said recently. So the hunt was on for someone new. Among those who auditioned? Glover and Hamill.

Nearly a decade had passed since Hamill completed what he thought would be his last film in the Star Wars franchise. When it came to animation, he really wasn't on anybody's radar. But he had read articles in Comic Buyer's Guide that Batman: The Animated Series hoped to emulate the classic 1940s Superman cartoons of Max Fleischer, a Hamill favorite.

"I called my agent and said, 'I really want to get on this, but I'd like to play a villain that's never been done before… Clayface, Hugo Strange, Two Face.' So my agent reached out and they wanted me for an episode," says Hamill, who was cast as Mr. Freeze's boss, Ferris Boyle, in "Heart of Ice," an episode that won a writing Emmy. "I modeled Ferris after Phil Hartman, a guy with a smooth public persona and a different one behind the scenes."

While he didn't have to audition for his first role, he did have to read for the Joker. He was given one note: "Don't think Jack Nicholson."

"I remember going in and they gave me the Nicholson note, which wasn't anything I wanted to do. I wanted to deliver an old school comic book interpretation of the Joker. He's a theatrical guy who really has fun; the joy has to come across in his battle with Batman," says Hamill.

Even though he went all out for the role, he thought his Star Wars past would doom him, particularly since he'd just seen the rough reaction Michael Keaton received when he was cast in Burton's 1989 film.

"I figured there was no way they'd hire Luke Skywalker as the Joker. So, in a way it was very freeing. I had great confidence at the audition because I thought there was no way I could get it. I thought, 'I'm going to give them the best damn Joker they've ever heard and they're really going to regret not being able to cast me,' " recalls Hamill.

As it turns out, he was wrong. Casting and voice director Andrea Romano later told Hamill it was his laugh that sealed the deal.

"I had been playing Amadeus for almost a year on the road. On those shows, you can't change the words, but I would play around with the laugh. Because of the play, I had an arsenal of laughs for the Joker," he says.

Hamill was surprised to find that he was the biggest Batman fan in the cast

“The fans know that I’m a fan, but a lot of the cast didn’t know much about Batman. Diane Pershing has never read a comic!” Hamill says. “Kevin Conroy has never read a Batman comic in his life," he adds with a big laugh.

John Glover freely admits his lack of exposure. “Growing up, if I were going to read a comic, it would have been Archie, or Betty and Veronica. Not Batman.”