Carrie Fisher RIP At 60
If you’re reading this, you likely know by now Carrie Fisher did not win her battle against the severe heart attack she suffered on that plane earlier this week. Unfortunately there are several different kinds of cardiac episodes ranging in severity, and the odds of surviving that kind of episode she had lie around 8 to 20 percent depending on how soon medical care can be administered. However, this is Fisher we’re talking about and she hung on longer than victims usually do.
The daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds, Fisher was catapulted into stardom herself at just 19 years old when she was cast as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy. She started acting as early as 15 in the Broadway show Irene and first appeared in the movies back in 1975, opposite Warren Beatty in Shampoo.
More recently she voiced Peter’s boss on Family Guy and played a role in the Amazon original series Catastrophe, but her biggest presence as of late was as GENERAL Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which released last year. We will see her in the role one last time: Fisher completed filming her scenes for Episode 8 months ago.
In recent years, however, Fisher had taken up more of her time writing than acting. Her novelizations go all the way back to Postcards From The Edge (1987), and culminate in her trilogy of autobiographies: Wishful Drinking (2008), Shockaholic (2011), and The Princess Diarist (2016). It was in that most recent book that she told the following tale:
Remember the white dress I wore all through that film? George came up to me the first day of filming, took one look at the dress and said: “You can’t wear a bra under that dress.”
“OK, I’ll bite,” I said. “Why?” And he said: “Because…there’s no underwear in space.”
He said it with such conviction. Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn’t see any bras or panties anywhere.
He explained. “You go into space and you become weightless. Then your body expands but your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your own underwear.”
I think this would make for a fantastic obituary. I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
-Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher was 60 years old. She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra.
December 27, 2016 @ 9:41 pm
I saw this on my newsfeed last night and couldn't believe it. Leia was an iconic figure in mine and many other girls' childhoods, and she made it acceptable to run around blasting bad guys with the boys. Now we're all grown up, Leia is a key part of the new triology, and I can't think how they are going to finish it without her.
But Fisher was so much more than just Leia: script editor, writer, and acclaimed in the industry for her behind-the-scenes work, which was often uncredited. She will be very much missed by so many people.
December 27, 2016 @ 11:58 pm
I am really sad to she Carrie Fisher die because I am a huge fan of Star Wars and I was happy to see her back on the new movies. I was not aware she voiced Family Guy too. RIP.
December 28, 2016 @ 7:58 pm
I read somewhere that we’ll get to see her one last time in Episode 8.
December 28, 2016 @ 3:29 pm
I have never seen the original Star Wars movies or the latest one. I have only seen the one with Natalie Portman in it, so I'm not familiar with Carrie Fisher. But nevertheless, it's quite sad that she passed away so suddenly and untimely. Also it's interesting to note that she had an affair with Harrison Ford.
December 29, 2016 @ 12:03 am
Yeah, you must have seen Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) or Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), both with Natalie Portman. Pricess Leia is only born at the end of Episode II, so that's when Fisher features.
Never knew she had and affair with Solo though, seems to be common in this line of business. 🙂