You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system!
>Fisher said she liked Cushing so much that it was difficult to act as though she hated Tarkin,[120] and she had to substitute somebody else in her mind to muster the feelings. Although one of her lines referred to Tarkin’s “foul stench,” she said the actual actor smelled like “linen and lavender,” something Cushing attributed to his tendency to wash and brush his teeth thoroughly before filming because of his self-consciousness about bad breath.
Is that “can’t keep a straight face smile” or a “sempai is touching me!” smile?
Do you have a message for people who suffer with bipolar disorder?
Oh, yes. You can outlast anything. It’s complicated, it’s a job, but it’s doable. One of the greatest things that happened for me was that psychotic episode. Having survived it, I now know the difference between a problem and an inconvenience. Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It’s a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life. – Carrie Fisher [x]
anthony daniels and kenny baker (c3po and r2d2) mutually loathe each other and haven’t seen each other for years, not even on the tfa set. occasionally they snipe at each other in interviews [x]
natalie portman and keira knightley looked (and were dressed) so alike on the set of the phantom menace that keira’s own mother couldn’t tell them apart at first [x]
warwick davis was 11 years old when he played wicket. he only got the job because kenny baker (who was meant to play him) was ill that day [x]
and mark hamill, eternal pure cinnamon roll, welcomed him to the set by buying him all the star wars toys he didn’t have [x]
nute gunray was (probably) named after newt gingrich and ronald reagan (gunray = raygun = reagan) because george lucas wanted to give the finger to both i guess [x]
nicolas cage enjoyed hayden christensen’s acting in star wars and praised his performance [x]
peter cushing’s feet were made so uncomfortable by tarkin’s too-small military boots that he ended up doing most of his scenes in his slippers [x]
after having his darth vader voice dubbed over with james earl jones’s, dave prowse publicly claimed to be a victim of ‘reverse racism’ [x]
chewbacca was modelled after lucas’s dog. that dog was called ‘indiana’ and indiana jones was also named after him. i hope lucas paid that dog royalties [x]
samuel l jackson has ‘bad motherfucker’ engraved on the side of his purple lightsaber [x]
perhaps unsurprisingly considering the ‘reverse racism’ thing, dave prowse is banned from official star wars conventions. might also be because he leaked rotj’s ending to a newspaper [x]
steven spielberg’s e.t. species are part of the star wars universe. their leader is called ‘grebleips’ which is ‘spielberg’ spelled backwards [x]
ray winstone was considered for the role of bail organa, but showed up drunk to the audition. unsurprisingly he didn’t get it [x]
more practical miniature effects were made for each one of the prequels than for the entire original trilogy [x]
carrie fisher fought with harrison ford about how much dialogue she should have in the ‘jabba’s palace’ scene. it ended with her saying ‘why can’t I talk, suddenly? because I’m in a bikini?’ which makes me love her all the more [x]
I
always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me
in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto
paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the
traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and
underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know.
Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.
Carrie Fisher explains to a little boy what ‘bipolar’ means, at Indiana Comic Con 2015.
I love her so much.
I will always reblog this because it’s the best description of bi-polar I have EVER seen.
(Especially to people who don’t understand what mania means. You aren’t HAPPY, you’re very fast.)
It was SO important to 15-year-old me to learn that PRINCESS LEIA (whose hair I have envied since age 7, btw) was bi-polar.
she is so good and i love her so much, and so so much for TALKING about everything so frankly. (without losing an ounce of her humor).
I never gave Carrie Fisher much thought until she was the guest on Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me – If you aren’t familiar with the show, it’s a news-related comedy podcast recorded weekly in Chicago.
She was hilarious and everything I have read/seen since has made me like and respect her more.
Reblogging because it is so important not to hide things from kids. This is an awesome example of explaining something to a kid by relating it to things they already understand. Then they can accept it, process it, and move on. Otherwise, the hidden thing can become a source of fear or shame.
The original Star Wars trio are really epitomizing the three ways to successfully be a Cool Older Person ™ on Twitter
Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself): the Bernie Sanders / George Takei type. Completely coherent, correct grammar, uses punctuation so u can tell he’s old. Polite replies to Star Wars asks and theories. Nice dad vibe overall.
Carrie Fisher (@carrieffisher): the Cher type. Incoherent shitposting and huge emojis. Still manages to make a point and always be nice. Bashes Donald Trump. Crazy lovable aunt vibe overall.
Harrison Ford: no twitter. Stays away from all our goddamn nonsense. truly a wise man.
“I had a lot of fun killing Jabba the Hutt,” Fisher recalled during a 2015 press conference. “They asked me on the day if I wanted to have a stunt double kill Jabba. No! That’s the best time I ever had as an actor. And the only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster.”
On Return of the Jedi director Richard Marquand: “I hated him.”
“I hated him,” Fisher told the Daily Beast this year, when asked about her relationship with the director. “He fell all over Harrison, but he would yell at me constantly. He yelled at me one day, and I burst into tears, and it felt great because it f—–d up the makeup. I thought, ‘Oh, I f—-d up your shot? Now you see who really f—-d up.’ It took an hour for them to do my makeup again.”
On her literary idol, Dorothy Parker
“Like me, she was half-Jewish, she was five-foot-one, she had brown hair, brown eyes, and then later on of course she married a gay guy. But she married hers twice, so I didn’t do that.“
“I decided that’s who I wanted to be,” Fisher told The Telegraph in 2014, when discussing authors who have influenced her own writing.
“That was who I admired, and I started writing limericks like hers.”
On being made to lose weight before playing Leia in The Force Awakens:
“They always hire not entirely me; they always want me minus anywhere between 10lb and 30lb to 40lb. “
“Well, yeah, they did that on the first Star Wars,” Fisher told The Telegraph in 2014, when asked about the fact that she was required to lose 35lb before filming began for The Force Awakens.
“They always hire not entirely me; they always want me minus anywhere between 10lb and 30lb to 40lb. In this case I’ve been very cooperative. If I could’ve been as cooperative as I am in this situation in relationships, I’d be happily married. But I complied. I’ve learnt over time that you’re not supposed to like everything you do. That was shocking to me, to find that out at, like, 30 years old. Well, OK, if I don’t have to like it then, s—, I can do that.”
