Hamill replied, “Kevin Smith in Clerks has these offhanded references that kill me. My sons had to show me this…I think they were just speculating on the administrative costs of the janitorial staff of the Death Star. I love that sort of minutia where they take this hard edge reality to something that’s fantasy cause I was sort of that way myself.

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He can get you into trouble, though, cause Kevin Smith said, ‘Will you do Jay and Silent Bob?’ I said, ‘Will you send me this script?’ And I read this thing and I said, ‘Ho ho! It’s filthy!! They say the f-word 50 times on one page! There’s pot smoking lesbians, dog hard-ons! If you can get the clearance of Lucasfilm legal, sure I’ll do it. Good luck!’ And you know the only complaint they had from Lucasfilm was, ‘Make sure that the green bong-saber….’ They were concerned about the color of the blades of bong-sabers because ‘red is evil and green or blue is good’. I forget what it was. I said, ‘If that’s not the best insight into their thought process…’ I said, ‘I couldn’t explain Lucasfilm better than that.’ But having said that, I was backed into a corner! I said, ‘Oh my god! I’ve gotta do this thing!’