Harry Potter fans raising their wands for Alan Rickman and Star Wars fans raising their lighsabers for Carrie Fisher
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The last lead to be cast was Leia. “I had another girl who was much younger, who looked like what you might envision as a princess [Terri Nunn],” Lucas says. “She was very pretty and petite, but she also had an edge to her. Whereas Carrie is a very warm person; she’s a fun-loving, goofy kid who can also play a very hard, sophisticated, tough leader. This other girl couldn’t play sweet and goofy. Whereas with Carrie, if she played a tough person, somehow underneath it you knew that she really had a warm heart. So I cast it that way. The princess is one of the main characters, so the actress was going to have to be able to generate a lot of strength very quickly with limited resources available—and I thought Carrie could do it.”
-from The Making Of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler
i did an important art project today
Design is available here! Just print out on 8.5×11″ paper, cut along the gray lines, paint the back of the paper with craft glue (i used Mod Podge) and wrap it around a plain glass pillar candle. Voila: your very own secular and/or idolatrous Space Mom candle! Please remember that Carrie Fisher’s dad was Jewish every time you look at it, cause, you know.
The best thing I’ve see so far this year.
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legends only, my friends. legends only
she didn’t actually have it made for that purpose, she had it around the house and it was her favorite thing so her brother, who knows his sister very very well, decided to put her ashes in it
Only way Carrie could go out even more awesomely was thanks to her equally awesome brother, Todd.
Princess Leia Tribute Parade
Krewe of Chewbacchus
New Orleans
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AND THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT BEING FROM NEW ORLEANS..
The lengths I would go to hear her laugh — there were no limits. I loved her and loved making her laugh. She would do these crazy things and make me do these crazy things, but I really don’t think they were crazy after all. In a way, it was a defense mechanism for her. She was so off the wall, she could use it as protection. Part of what was so poignant about her was that she was vulnerable, that there was this glimmer of a little girl that was so appealing and it roused the protective nature in my personality.
I’m grateful that we stayed friends and got to have this second act with the new movies. I think it was reassuring to her that I was there, the same person, that she could trust me, as critical as we could sometimes be with each other. We ran the gamut over the years, where we were in love with each other, where we hated each other’s guts. “I’m not speaking to you, you’re such a judgmental, royal brat!” We went through it all. It’s like we were a family.
When you were in her good graces, you couldn’t have more fun with any person on the planet. She was able to make you feel like you were the most important thing in her life. I think that’s a really rare quality. And then you could go 180 degrees opposite, where you were furious with one another and wouldn’t speak for weeks and weeks. But that’s all part of what makes a relationship complete. It’s not all one sided. Like I say, she was a handful. She was high maintenance. But my life would have been so much drabber and less interesting if she hadn’t been the friend that she was.
It’s raining in Hollywood and a soaking wet, off-brand Chewbacca just tried to get me to take a picture with him in front of Madam Tussaud’s, and yet amidst the chaos of bumbling tourists and soggy cartoon characters, Carrie Fisher’s star is wreathed in fresh flowers and positively covered in glitter, just the way she would have wanted it.