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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Mel Brooks Will Set a Hollywood Record With His Role in the Upcoming Spaceballs 2 · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Yoda, the green, diminutive Jedi Master from Star Wars who
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  Speaker 2: is just about nine hundred years old when he passed away,
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  Speaker 2: was famously parodied by mel Brooks as the schwartz Master
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  Speaker 2: Yogurt in his nineteen eighty seven lampoon Spaceballs. Mel is
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  Speaker 2: now set to reprise the role of Yogurt in the
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  Speaker 2: upcoming Spaceball sequel, whi's recently been confirmed, and while Mel
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  Speaker 2: will be a baby compared to Yoda, he'll make history
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  Speaker 2: with his performance. He'll be one hundred years old by
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  Speaker 2: the time the movie premieres, matching Norman Lloyd's record as
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  Speaker 2: the oldest actor ever to appear on screen in a
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  Speaker 2: scripted Hollywood film. To give you an idea of how
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  Speaker 2: long he's been working, Mel's first on screen role was
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  Speaker 2: more than sixty years ago. Even still, he was a
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  Speaker 2: late bloomer thirty seven years old at the time. And
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  Speaker 2: Spaceball two goes into production later this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.