Leia and Luke: Scene from “Star Wars”
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Of course, it was long overdue that Carrie Fisher also received her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to see it when the time came on Thursday (May 4th). The date was carefully chosen, after all it is the so-called “Star Wars Day” (May The Forth).
To mark the occasion, Mark Hamill paid tribute to his late co-star from the Star Warriors saga. “I was completely unprepared for the person I encountered, who was just amazing in a sense that she seemed so much wiser than she was then,” the Luke Skywalker actor told Variety. She was “very funny, very spontaneous, very witty”.
Hamill continued: “She was as far from a damsel in distress as one can get. She was responsible for her own rescue. I think that first impression that viewers got immediately made it clear how they perceived Carrie overall, and she just grew from there.”
Fisher passed away in 2016, and the actor still finds it hard to live life without her. “There are people you meet in life who are so alive and have such a profound impact on you that they stay with you forever,” he said. “If she had only played Princess Leia, that would have been enough. If she had written just one book, that would be enough to make someone happy who wanted to make their mark on the world. But she did it in so many ways… She really was one of a kind.”