Mark Hamill is a legend and Bert Kreischer knows it. At the premiere of his new movie, "The Machine," Kreischer gushed about the "Star Wars" star playing his father in the film. "It’s crazy to have Mark Hamill as my dad," he told Fox News Digital.
And of course, Kreischer did what any "Star Wars" fan would do: ask a million questions of the one and only Luke Skywalker. "It was crazy to get on a private jet with him to Serbia and sit down drunk and go, ‘All right, let’s talk trash.
What’s Harrison Ford really like? Did Carrie Fisher party?’" Kreischer said. He added, "Mark is so generous with his time, and he makes sure that he gives you everything you want and a little more." Kreischer can also hardly believe he has his own feature length film. "This is an accident, my life is like – I’m like a drunk Forrest Gump," he joked. "The Machine" stars the comedian as a fictionalized version of himself based on a story he told early in his standup career about a college trip to Russia that involved partying, robbery and the Russian mafia. "It was an accident, to be honest with you.
All of it was an accident," he said. "I was doing Dr. Drew one night and someone from my class called up and was like, ‘Hey why don’t you tell him about the time you robbed your class?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, yeah!’" Kreischer was already an established personality, known for his comedy career, hosting several series on The Travel Channel, and being the inspiration behind the Ryan Reynolds movie "Van Wilder," when he eventually pitched the movie idea to Legendary Entertainment. "Even selling this movie, I went in to Legendary, and I pitched three other movies and, he was like, ‘Which one?’ And I’m like, ‘If I’m going to get to make a movie, I kind.
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