It Turns Out That Carrie Fisher Wrote Some Of ‘The Last Jedi’s Best Lines

Star Wars: The Last Jedi reminded us of just how much we miss the wonderful Carrie Fisher, who passed away almost a year ago, on December 27, 2016. Director Rian Johnson remembered the star in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, and spoke about the impact she had on the film, revealing that she was actually responsible for some of its key lines of dialogue.

There were several key lines that Johnson attributed to fisher, including a line about Leia‘s hairstyle, and another, in which her character tells Laura Dern‘s character Amilyn Holdo “you go, I’ve said it enough”, in reference to the classic line “may the Force be with you.” Johnson explained that he deliberately enlisted her help to add more humour to the film, saying:

“I think that as Star Wars fans, especially as adults, you can get into a mindset of wanting it to just be the heavy opera. And I don’t know, I was 10 years old when Return of the Jedi came out. That was the perfect age for it. And the humor and the slight goofiness of it also, and kind of the slight free-wheeling feel of it, and how it’s unafraid to have fun, that to me is essential.”

He went on to describe their collaborative process, saying that “every single part” of Fisher’s performance was imbued with her own ideas about Leia, and adding:

“I would sit down with her and she would just give me … After an hour, I would have filled up pages and pages writing down the notes and one-liners that she would pitch. And so we tried to work them in whenever we could.”

Carrie Fisher was a prolific writer and penned a number of fiction and non-fiction books over the years, as well as film scripts, and adapting her own novel Postcards From The Edge for the screen in 1990. She also acted as a script doctor, punching up dialogue in such films as Sister Act, The Last Action Hero and the Adam Sandler comedy The Wedding Singer.

 

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