TILL THE END
with the cast of ‘Star Wars’, ( from right)
and TV.
She avoided few topics in the piece, including the scandal that engulfed her superstar parents (singer Fisher ran off with Elizabeth Taylor); her brief marriage to pop star Paul Simon; the time the father of her daughter left her for a man; and, waking up next to the dead body of a platonic friend who had overdosed in her bed.
Fisher had been hospitalised since
Friday, after falling ill aboard a flight and being treated by paramedics at the Los Angeles airport. Her family gave no details on the emergency, while media reports said she had suffered a heart attack.
Her feature film debut was opposite Warren Beatty in the 1975 hit Shampoo. She also appeared in Austin Powers, The Blues Brothers, Charlie’s Angels, Hannah and Her Sisters, Scream 3 and When Harry Met Sally.
But she is best remembered as the tough, feisty and powerful Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films, making a statement with her character and no-nonsense braided buns.
She famously despised the latter, and had mixed feelings about her famous character. She knew it then and authe diences later figured it out: playing Han Solo would have suited her better.
“When I first read script, I thought that’s the part to be, always wry and sardonic,” Fisher told a gathering in England last year.
She reprised the role of Leia in Episode VII of the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens last year, and her digitally rendered image appears in the newest instalment, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Fisher kept telling her own story after Postcards from the Edge became a bestseller and was adapted into a 1990 movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.
Fisher starred with her mother in a documentary set to air on HBO next year. Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.
Besides her mother, she is survived by her brother, Todd Fisher, and her daughter, Billie Lourd.
Someone made sure Fisher would be thought of with a wistful smile: her bulldog, Gary Fisher, had his own Twitter account that offered this message on Tuesday: “Saddest tweets to tweet. Mommy is gone. I love you @carrieffisher.”
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