‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill drops by White House for a visit with ‘Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi’

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 larger respect for the workplace.

“I like the merch,” he stated, taking off the glasses throughout a fast look on the White Home each day press briefing following his go to with Biden. Hamill, 72, well-known for taking part in Luke Skywalker, kidded with reporters that he’d take a couple 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’s been to the White Home earlier than, through 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 images and different Oval Workplace objects, Hamill stated.

Hamill stated Biden advised him to name him “Joe,” to which Hamill provided an alternate suggestion: “Can I name you Joe-bi-Wan Kenobi?”

“He preferred that,” stated Hamill, who additionally voiced the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Sequence.”

Each Hamill and the White Home had been imprecise about his cause for visiting. However Hamill, a Democrat and Biden supporter with an enormous social media following, has been posting concerning the president’s reelection marketing campaign this week.

“Could The First Not Quench Your Thirst For Biden’s Re-election!” he wrote on Could 1.

On Friday he posted, “Could The Third Be Absurd That The Man Who Tried To Steal A Truthful Election Is Allowed To Run Once more,” a reference to Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Could 4th is unofficially “Star Wars” Day, partially due to the well-known Jedi phrase “Could the drive be with you.” The pun goes, “Could 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 folks to take cowl at any time when Russia unleashes one other aerial bombardment on Ukraine.