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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 9 december 2017
Star Wars cast reflects on Carrie Fisher’s and Leia’s legacy

By LINDSEY BAHR great sense of irony.”
AP Film Writer Fisher made newcomer Kel-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie ly Marie Tran realize, “How
Fisher may have been the much courage it takes to
“madcap Auntie Mame” be yourself when you’re on
to Mark Hamill’s “square” a public platform.”
homebody, but despite “She was so unapologetic
their differences, the Star and openly herself,” Tran
Wars siblings got along fa- said. “She will always be
mously right till the end. an icon as Leia but also as
While both skyrocketed to Carrie. What an example.
celebrity with their Star Wars I am so fortunate to have
roles in 1977 and remained met her.”
inextricably linked through But Fisher’s famed frank-
their on-screen family, Ha- ness and spirit was only one
mill says he missed a lot of This image released by Lucasfilm shows Carrie Fisher as General Leia in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” part of a complex person,
Fisher’s life — during “the in theaters on Dec. 15. according to Hamill, who,
Bryan Lourd years” and Associated Press after 40 years of knowing
when her daughter Billie something.” “We’ll have to find a way Hollywood royalty who em- her got to see the nuance.
Lourd was an infant. That’s Fisher was apparently be- to give her closure in IX, but bodied her. The women “As tough as she was and
why, even before her un- loved by all in the cast, we’ll never be able to re- in particular recall being as venomous as her wit
timely death last year, he both for who she was and place her,” Hamill said. deeply affected by the could be, she was really
felt especially grateful to what the character of Leia Although no one can talk Leia character when they vulnerable in a way.
just get to spend time with meant to them. Her death about exactly what Leia’s were young. Even though we weren’t re-
his friend during the film- at age 60 came after film- arc entails in “The Last “I truly remember thinking ally brother and sister there
ing of “Star Wars: The Last ing had finished and deep Jedi,” out Dec. 15, Johnson ‘She’s different. She’s not was sort of a protectiveness
Jedi.” into post-production, but expects it will be an emo- like all the rest,’” Gwen- I felt. I was defensive when
“I’d see her periodically presented a bit of a co- tional experience. doline Christie said of see- people would criticize her
during charity events or nundrum for the filmmakers “She is so good in it,” John- ing Leia for the first time and I’d get mad at her
when there were Star Wars who had anticipated Leia son said. “I always think when she was 6 or 7-years- when she was self-indul-
celebrations and so forth. being part of the next film about the fans who didn’t old. “I’m thinking, ‘I want to gent, which was quite a lot.
But this was the first time too. know her in real life and be like her.’” But I loved her so much,”
where we could really “The Last Jedi” writer-direc- grew up watching her and But it was Fisher’s extraordi- Hamill said.
hang and enjoy each oth- tor Rian Johnson said he it’s like they’re all going nary persona that was top “When I get mad and self-
er. Even if I wasn’t shooting ultimately didn’t end up through their own type of of mind of everyone. ish and think,
I was coming in for stunt changing anything about loss. It’s really going to be “It’s hard to do it justice, ‘Darn-it Carrie, your timing
training and this or that, her role in this installment, emotional for people who describing the life of some- used to be perfect, why
hair tests, coming into her which is the eighth in the she means something to one. She’s so complicat- now?’ You have to say,
trailer and hanging out with Star Wars films about the see this. I hope it’ll be good. ed,” said Adam Driver, who ‘At least we have that. We
her and (her dog) Gary,” lives and adventures of the I hope it’ll mean something plays her estranged son. should be grateful for the
Hamill said. “There was a Skywalker clan. That’ll be to them.” “It is always exciting to see time we had with her.’ And
comfort level we’d devel- something J.J. Abrams will Many in the cast speak someone who is not inter- I do know one thing: She
oped over all these years. have to grapple with in Epi- almost interchangeably ested in conforming to any would want us to be laugh-
She knew me. She knew I sode IX, in which Fisher was about the feisty princess way of how you should be- ing and happy, not morose
hadn’t really changed. She meant to have a much turned general and the have. And I think she em- and depressed over her not
knew I wasn’t out to get more prominent role. unapologetic boldness of bodied that with a really being around anymore.”q
Mira Sorvino replies to backlash

following harassment claims

NEW YORK (AP) — Mira There’s a lot of people who also harassed her.
Sorvino says she’s still glad think, ‘You all knew, you Sorvino, who has said Wein-
she revealed her sexual kept silent and you could stein tried to massage her
misconduct allegations have prevented so many back, invited her on dates
against movie mogul Har- people from being hurt.’ and showed up at her
vey Weinstein despite fac- But I only knew of myself apartment, writes that she
ing a backlash by some for a while,” she writes. “No can’t be sure if turning him
who accuse her of keeping one could imagine the se- down harmed her career
silent in order to save her rial level of predation that but she won an Oscar for
career. has since become open.” his company Miramax with
Sorvino wrote a guest col- The Hollywood Reporter is- 1995’s “Mighty Aphrodite”
umn in The Hollywood Re- sue also includes accounts and yet never worked with
porter on Friday in which of other alleged victims of the movie company again.
the Oscar-winner explains Weinstein, including ac- “I was not offered any
why she came forward last tresses Natasha Henstridge, movie roles past 1996,” she
month and says she has Katherine Kendall, Alice writes.
faced a fair amount of on- Evans and Larissa Gomes, “I felt if I had accepted In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Mira Sorvino, a cast member
line critics. and reporter Lauren Sivan, Harvey’s advances, I would in “Mothers and Daughters,” poses at the premiere of the film
“Here’s the part that peo- who says the late Fox News have continued to make at the London West Hollywood Hotel Screening Room in West
ple don’t understand. Channel chief Roger Ailes movies with them.”q Hollywood, Calif. Associated Press