At
a recent press conference for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the women of the film’s
cast, Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma), Laura Dern (Vice Admiral Holdo),
Daisy Ridley (Rey) and Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico) were asked to share their
experience and impact that both Carrie Fisher and the pioneering role that she
played in Star Wars saga had on them as both children and adult women.
Carrie,
who passed away a year ago (December 27,
2016) after completing her work
on The Last Jedi for director Rian Johnson, was
an icon for generations of girls and women as the powerful and defiant
Leia and also an inspiration in real life as someone who lived her life
honestly, candidly, and without any restrictions and constraints.
"Leia was very significant
because I was first shown A New Hope when I was 6, and I remember thinking: 'Wow, that character
is really different,'" said Christie. "I watched TV and film
obsessively from such a young age, but it stayed with me throughout my
formative years. She's really interesting. She's really smart. She's really
funny. She's courageous. She's bold. She doesn't care what people think, and
she isn't prepared to be told what to do. And she doesn't look the same as a
sort of homogenized presentation of a woman that we had been used to
seeing."
The
Game of Thrones star, Christie continued, "That was really instrumental to
me as someone that didn't feel like they fitted that homogenized view of what a
woman was supposed to be. That there was inspiration there. That you could be
an individual and celebrate yourself and be successful without giving yourself
over, without necessarily making some sort of terrible, huge compromise. So it
was a big inspiration for me."
Dern,
who makes her debut in the Star Wars franchise with The Last Jedi, said that
she felt exactly the same way as Christie when she first watched Leia on the
screen as a young girl, adding that her respect for the character carried over
to Fisher herself: "What moved me the most about the icon she gave us, but
also what she gave us individually and personally, was to be who she was so
directly, and to be without shame ... it was a privilege to watch how Rian has
so beautifully captured all of that and her grace in this amazing, beautiful,
pure performance."
Ridley,
who had mentioned how emotional the shoot for The Last Jedi was, took a
slightly different tack, focusing instead on Fisher's other legacy, her
daughter Billie Lourd. "Carrie's daughter, Billie has, I think, all of
those qualities. She's smart and funny and shameless and wonderful. ... I think
Carrie bringing up a daughter who has all of those qualities and then some in
this world, if that's what she did just being herself, I think it speaks
volumes to what she did as her in the spotlight and also her as Leia."
"Something about Carrie
that I really look up to is, and something I didn't realize until recently, was
just how much courage it takes to truly be yourself when you're on a public
platform or when possibly a lot of people will be looking at you," said
Tran in a comment that served nicely to sum up the others. "She was so
unapologetic and so openly herself, and that is something that I am really
trying to do, and it's hard. Just like Daisy said, like Laura said, like
Gwendoline said, I think that she will always be an icon as Leia, but also as
Carrie. I am so fortunate to have met her, and I think that she will really
live on forever."
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
is out in theaters on December 15, and something tells us
that Carrie Fisher will always be there in spirit in a big way
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