Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher ‘like siblings’
Mark Hamill remembers his late “Star Wars” co-star Carrie Fisher as not only his screen sibling but as almost a real-life sister.
“Carrie, she used to drive me crazy,” Hamill, 66, fondly recalled on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Tuesday. “I mean, we were more like real siblings than I really thought, because we’d have these huge fights. I’d say, ‘You’re just so full of yourself and I can’t stand it, and you think you’re Hollywood royalty’ and she’d say, ‘Well, y’know, you’re such a loser.’”
Yet, he went on, “We’d have these big fights and we wouldn’t see each other for months or even years and then you’d see each other again and remind yourself how much fun it was to be together, because not only could she make me laugh, but I could make her laugh. And that was our goal.”
Hamill, who reprises his role as Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which opens Dec. 15, called Fisher, who died last Dec. 27 at age 60, “an irreplaceable member of the family. But the whole world feels that way. We’re all sort of mourning her. And I always think of her in the present tense. I don’t think of her in the past. Because any time you were with her, it was just fun.”
Fisher, in one of her last roles, posthumously plays Gen. Leia Organa in the new film. Her daughter, “Scream Queens” actress Billie Lourd, also appears.
“It’s so great that Billie Lourd’s in the movie because you have that sort of continuity there,” Hamill said.
Grammy nomination: Carrie Fisher continues to exhibit the posthumous power of the Force. The actress, who passed away in December 2016, was nominated Tuesday for a Grammy Award in the spoken-word category for her unflinching 2016 memoir, “The Princess Diarist.”