Billy Dee Williams Says He Spent 'A Lot of Years' Getting Shouted at by Disgruntled Star Wars Fans

IGN ^ | JAN 26, 2024 | ADELE ANKERS-RANGE

[nickcarraway]

Did James Earl Jones ever have this problem?

[Red Badger]

Idiots......................

[21twelve]

It could have been worse - he could’ve been Bruce Dern.

[P.O.E.]

Well maybe he shouldn’t have betrayed Han Solo, then :)

[nickcarraway]

Who among us hasn’t put a friend in carbonite and sold him to a crime lord that is his archenemy?

[lee martell]

Some people take their live action Comic Books and Sci Fi tales way too seriously.

It’s not new. Margaret Hamilton, the woman who played the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz found herself typecast, and could find few new roles that were not similar to the Witch.

Linda Blair made one major movie, back when she was 14 years old. The Exorcist. To this day, it defines her as an actress to most people.

[nickcarraway]

Greedo shot first.

[nickcarraway]

I've never thought an actor is the character they play. I wouldn't go up to Orson Welles and say, "How could you sell fake medicine and kill those children?!"

Well, except Alec Baldwin in Glengary Glen Ross. I think he was so good in that, because that's pretty much him. I still wouldn't harangue him on the street about being mean to Jack Lemon.

[Williams]

He’s totally dramatizing what people said to him.

This is what actors do.

[pepsi_junkie]

So finally, I said, 'Look, think about the whole situation. You're up against a pretty formidable character in Darth Vader. And then there is, of course, Boba Fett. And these people were invading my space, and I had to bargain with them. But the bargain at least prevented the complete demise of Han Solo and his friends. But I had to hold on to my whole situation."

Yeah, he wasn't kidding.

Youtube: Lando Trying to make a deal with Vader

[nickcarraway]

I wonder how many people come up to him and ask him about Gale Sayers. Brian's Song is supposed to be one of the most popular movies among men.

[lee martell]

Jack Lemon had the public image of being someone most everybody liked. Sort of like Gary Cooper, sort of like Guy Fieri.

I’ll bet somewhere, someone still harbors a silent, blazing fury about how Alec’s character treated Jack’s character in that movie. “It just wasn’t fair!!”

[nickcarraway]

It was so touching how Lando supported his friend Sonny, when he got cancer. And I think Diana Ross was his girlfriend.

[lee martell]

Probably not too many bother Billie Dee in reference to
Brian’s Song. I recall watching it on TV as a Movie of the Week. Brian’s Song was mostly seen as a vehicle for James Caan. Caan became a very successful movie actor. Billie Dee had success, but mostly limited to black music genre, i.e. Lady Sings the Blues.

[nickcarraway]

I never though of Jack Lemon like Gary Cooper, but he certainly brought a lot of pathos to his role in Glengary. The desperation.

I'm pretty sure that role was the inspiration for the character Gil on The Simpsons.

[mass55th]

I’d have told them to f-off, and take their crap to the scriptwriters, you know, the a-holes who go on strike for months.

[IYAS9YAS]

Greedo shot first.

Blasphemer!

[The Duke]

"It could have been worse - he could’ve been Bruce Dern."

Nah, Bruce was too busy tending the plants in "Silent Running". :)

[monkeyshine]

Coffee is for closers!

[minnesota_bound]

#1 Everyone feared James Earl Jones wraith!
(two fingers pinching together to choke those that diss Jones!)