I've been just reading about Diddy, Kanye, and a few other performers. The general idea seems to be that it is almost impossible to do really well in those occupations - singers, songwriters, actors etc. - unless you are "in the club" in one way or another.

And that made me think again about Mark Hamill and both his career and his behavior. Mostly because he is somebody who has been in the news lately, and whose life and career are kind of giving conflicting signals when it comes to that "in that club or not?" part.

In some ways he has seemed like a decent guy, defended fans and what they would have wanted with his character around the Disney sequel movies. And he seems to have had a pretty solid marriage. But then there are his political comments and simping for the White House resident a few months ago.

I suppose there are two alternatives. He is a mediocre actor who managed to luck on with one role in movie that became an unexpected megasuccess, but then could not get much of anything else bigger because he just isn't that good, and has brain rot when it comes to politics, and maybe some other things too (and possibly even a pedo).

Or he was once a fairly decent guy, and a somewhat naive young actor who got that role maybe by luck, or maybe he got some help, but when it became that megasuccess he got an offer - or maybe a demand - he refused because he was at least sort of decent, or didn't want to give anybody that much power over his life (because I assume the price of fame probably does include doing something that would destroy you if "the club" made it public). And because of that he no longer got roles in anything bigger. Maybe he then gave in somewhat so that he could get his voice acting career.

And his latest shenanigans: he has 3 children who are all trying to make a career in that same place.

Maybe, just maybe, he is trying to protect them from getting that same offer he once maybe refused.

I suppose you might even wonder about that car accident he had right after filming for that first Star Wars movie was ending, it's not as if those people "in the club" are beyond arranging things like that. Maybe he had already gotten that offer - and refused it - then.

Who knows.

The sad thought: maybe Harrison Ford is somebody who accepted that same offer.