“Very funny, very spontaneous, very witty.”Įven then, Hamill says, Fisher was “disarmingly candid” about her personal life and her parents - actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, who had been considered “America’s Sweethearts” in the 1950s before her father’s affair with Elizabeth Taylor turned them into one of Hollywood’s earliest tabloid scandals.
“I was completely unprepared for the person I met, who just was overwhelming, in the sense that she seemed so much wiser than her years,” Hamill says. He recalls first arranging to meet Fisher over dinner before they started filming together, when Hamill was 24 and Fisher was 19.
No one is better positioned to understand the glare of that global spotlight than Fisher’s “Star Wars” co-star Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker throughout the franchise. You’re gonna be pursuing that because otherwise it’ll pursue you,” she told Rolling Stone. But if your second movie is ‘Star Wars,’ you’re done. “It’s sort of the engine that pushed everything else through … I didn’t really mean to be an actress. The first “Star Wars” film was only her second film role - following a brief but memorable appearance propositioning Warren Beatty in “Shampoo” - but Fisher recognized its gravitational pull on her career trajectory from the start. Although she became synonymous with one undeniably iconic character, Fisher never allowed herself to be defined by playing Princess Leia Organa, the fearless and feisty - if sometimes questionably costumed - rebel leader she portrayed in George Lucas’ game-changing 1977 blockbuster “ Star Wars” and its sequels, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” Three decades later, Fisher reprised her role when Disney revived the franchise for three new installments, “The Force Awakens,” “The Last Jedi,” completed before Fisher’s death, and “The Rise of Skywalker,” in which she posthumously appeared using archive footage.
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