.MarkHamill was 24 years old when he met a 19-year-old Carrie Fisher: “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. Very funny, very spontaneous, very witty.”
opens with a quote from Jewish poet, playwright and paratrooper Hannah Senesh: “There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.”
No one is better positioned to understand the glare of that global spotlight than Fisher’s “Star Wars” co-star, who played Luke Skywalker throughout the franchise. He recalls first arranging to meet Fisher over dinner before they started filming together, when Hamill was 24 and Fisher was 19. “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. “Very funny, very spontaneous, very witty.
Despite her likeness being plastered on everything from PEZ dispensers to soap, Fisher maintained that the public’s fascination was reserved solely for her character. As she wrote in her 2016 memoir “The Princess Diarist”: “Princess Leia was famous and not Carrie Fisher. I just happened to look like her.”
Fisher also became one of Hollywood’s most sought-after script doctors, particularly when it came to giving more depth and dimension to female characters. Films as diverse as “Sister Act,” “The Wedding Singer,” “Hook” and “Scream 3” all bear her fingerprints.
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