bonniegrrl | Bill Hader Channels His Inner Tauntaun

For "Saturday Night Live" cast member, comedian and actor Bill Hader, seeing Star Wars at a young age left a strong impression on him -- removing a few baby teeth in the process. "The first movie I remember seeing in a theater was The Empire Strikes Back with my dad," Hader recalls. "And when the movie got to the part with the tauntaun dying and he's cut open and I saw all that rice-like innards, I freaked out. I was probably about 3 years old and that scene scared the crap out of me. But my earliest childhood memories are mostly about collecting the Star Wars toys. In fact, I knocked my first tooth out running around with my Millennium Falcon and I hit a wall by accident. I was doing about six parsecs to warm up for the Kessel Run."
Hanging out at the local movie theater to see Star Wars films began at an early age. "My birthday is in early June, and since the movies always came out around late May, my birthdays sometimes had a Star Wars theme to them," Hader explains. "For my fifth birthday party, Return of the Jedi came out so all my friends and I went to go see it in the theater. All the users and concessions people were dressed up like stormtroopers and it was awesome."

Later on in high school, Hader took his then girlfriend to see one of his favorites in the saga -- The Empire Strikes Back -- with mixed results. "I went with a bunch of my friends to see a midnight screening The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition," Hader recalls. "Fans were dressed up in costumes and everyone was excited to see the film. I brought this girl I had started dating with us since she said she'd never seen a Star Wars film before. I filled her in on the storyline from A New Hope and said she should just enjoy watching it and not get too caught up in the plot. So as the movie starts in Hoth, and as the characters show up onscreen, she turns to me and gasps loudly, 'Hey! I didn't know Harrison Ford was in this!' And it got super quiet and some guy in the back of the theater then said, 'Who the hell just said that?' And then everybody in the theater groaned and starting booing my date. Obviously, we're not dating anymore."

Read the rest of my interview with Hader here:
Bill Hader Channels His Inner Tauntaun

SOURCE: starwars.com