Rest in peace, Carrie Fisher

On December 23rd, Carrie Fisher suffered a heart attack, but unfortunately she did not survive. The actress, known to everyone as Princess Leia from the Star Wars trilogy, died on December 27, 2016 at the age of 60 from complications such as "a spokesman for her family to US media» confirmed. 2016 took away a lot of our pop heroes...

"The world loved her," says a statement from her daughter Billie Lourd, who also works as an actress (Scream Queens). Fisher rose to fame when she was 19 for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series. There she played the strong, combative, elegant, witty, considered, pragmatic Princess Leia Organa. A role that would bring her fame as well as recognition and heartache. In the years following the original trilogy, Fisher found it increasingly difficult to follow up on the massive success of the sci-fi saga, but did occasionally appear in front of the camera for genre films. Who doesn't remember her memorable and self-referential cameo in Wes Craven's horror sequel Scream 3, or Sorority Row's sorority mother Mrs. Crenshaw? Carrie wasn't just the Princess of Alderaan, she was a talented, complicated, endlessly funny, successful woman in Hollywood whose impressive career deserves credit.

The daughter of Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher (1928-2010) also starred in films such as "Blues Brothers", "Harry and Sally" and "Favorite Enemies - A Soap Opera". She has published eight books, including her most recent autobiography, The Princess Diarist. In it, she reveals that she had an affair with her colleague Harrison Ford on the "Star Wars" set. Unfortunately, I have never read your books, but I have always discovered fantastic quotes, which of course are now being shared everywhere again. your work as Script Doctor has been highly regarded for decades, even if of course little was officially confirmed. Your Talk show appearances were also entertaining and their grandiose performance at the presentation of the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards to George Lucas aka The Roast of George Lucas was legendary. In 2015, she returned in her iconic role as General Leia Organa as vividly as she had more than three decades ago in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that same trilogy would bring her back to the big screen in 2017.

Carrie Fisher Roasts George Lucas at AFI Life Achievement Award

Fisher told a story in her book Wishful Drinking that led to the quote she wanted in her obituary:

Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, ‹You can't wear a bra under that dress.›

So, I say, 'Okay, I'll please. Why?›

And he says, 'Because... there's no underwear in space.'

I promise you this is true, and he says it with such conviction too! Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties or briefs anywhere.
Now, George came to my show when it was in Berkeley. He came backstage and explained why you can't wear your brassiere in other galaxies, and I have a sense you will be going to outer space very soon, so here's why you cannot wear your brassiere, per George. So, what happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands ??? But your bra doesn't- so you get strangled by your own bra. Now I think that this would make a fantastic obit- so 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.

She often did not have an easy life in life thanks to her illness, but her fun and relaxed approach and commitment as an advocate helped. Not just you. Always appeared on Twitter funny, her creative spelling for years as well cryptic legendary. Like no other, Carrie Fisher shaped the heroine figure of cinema. She was sometimes lovely, sometimes trigger-happy and in everything she did, she urged her audience: Don't take life too seriously! All heroine figures in cinema have had to measure themselves against her for 40 years and they will have to do the same in the future, because none of them can match her in terms of multifacetedness. In «Rogue One», the film that tells the story behind Episode IV and is currently in cinemas, Fisher can be seen again for a few seconds thanks to digital magic as the very young Leia and she speaks a single word: «hope». One might think that her life mission is summed up in this scene, to be forever young and to give hope forever. But appreciating Carrie Fisher's life means remembering her as a fictional heroine and a real one, as a young princess and an old rebel. Thank you Carrie Take care. May the Force be with you... always.

Princess Leia - Carrie Fisher Tribute - BBC Orchestra