Carrie Fisher’s candid account of life behind the scenes of the Star Wars films topped the best-seller list yesterday as tributes continued to pour in following the actress’s death.
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After suffering a heart attack during a flight from London, she was hospitalized and passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 60.
Billy Dee Williams, who starred as Lando Calrissian, also tweeted: “I’m deeply saddened at the news of Carrie’s passing”. Candles and flowers surround the star. The actress, who recently reprised her role for upcoming “Star Wars” films, will still appear in the next film, “Star Wars: Episode 8”.
It’s located in front of Hollywood Boulevard’s historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Carrie Fisher and Star Wars creator George Lucas.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said paramedics administered advanced life-saving care to a patient at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday and transported the person to a nearby hospital. As the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, she gave the rest of us a glimpse into Hollywood with equal measure of humor and truth. “She will be missed by all”. “I mean, that’s not fair, because she’s an icon”.
She and her husband Alistair had a Star Wars themed wedding in October 2016.
Sitting alongside a dapper Harrison Ford smoking a cigarette (these were certainly simpler times), Fisher engages in a conversation with the French interviewer about her Princess Leia character. She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College to film A New Hope, George Lucas’s 1977 film that skyrocketed Fisher and her co-stars, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, to worldwide acclaim.
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But what will become of her in the seventh movie remains to be seen as bosses keep tight-lipped about plot lines. She raised me to not think of men and women as different.
