After a huge array of applause to the sold out show Mark sat down for a Q and A. He lifted the crowds spirits right away by doing a fairly good impression of Harrison Ford. He was explaining how much he like the group dynamic of the films with his allies. To him Luke was the upbeat kid, but the film needed the cynical Harrison Ford, so he did a small impression of him.
Of the new films he said very little, he'd only been to one meeting about it so far. Mark knew very little about the selling of Star Wars to Disney, he knew George was stepping down, but he had to find out on the internet it was sold to Disney the next day he had just talked to George about it. We learned George was good at keeping secrets and telling lies. On set Mark would ask George questions about Luke all the time on the first film. Where's my Mom, where my Dad? Why am I living with my Aunt and Uncle? George would just make up things on the spot.
Balanced CGI with models was what he did get in at the first meeting. He wants a better balance of the two to make the film look better to which the audience applauded.
Mark told of how the secret about Darth being his Dad was kept before the film came out. No one knew as the lines read were that of revealing Obi-Wan killed his father and was actually a bad guy. The voice-over process changed it to what we know today, but only a few people knew, not even the crew. The fake Obi-wan news did hit the rags back then so it proves how fast things would leak. Mark told of small part he played in a show and how CBS leaked of his appearance even though it was suppose to be a secret.
He agreed the story element of Vader being his father was a great reveal, but with Leia being his sister he thought it was going too far. He said something like "What's next Chewbacca's going to take off his mask and a wavy haired women whose my Mom is going to come out?". He recalled saying the way Boba Fett dying irked him too during filming. That maybe why his favorite is Empire and not Return. The only thing else that got to him was how bad blue milk taste.
