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This is sad. My condolences to her family and friends. At least this was after the Star Wars: Rogue One movie. Edit: I think the downvotes misunderstood the in

This is sad. My condolences to her family and friends. At least this was after the Star Wars: Rogue One movie. Edit: I think the downvotes misunderstood the intent of my comment. I'm glad she was able to enjoy the new Star Wars movie, and I'm glad her friends, fans, and family also were able to enjoy it without mourning.

oxide 10y ago
>At least this was after the Star Wars: Rogue One movie. huh? why would that matter?
- rhapsodic 10y ago
  > huh? why would that matter? Well, it's nice that she lived long enough to see the part that her character played in the movie, and that her family was able to enjoy it for a brief time without her death casting a pall over it.
  - melling 10y ago
    Someone else played that part. It was done with cg.
  - sandworm101 10y ago
    Really? An aging actress might not be too happy seeing the highlight of her career replaced by a combination of stand-in teenagers and cgi.
    - tbirrell 10y ago
      I doubt this is an issue since everyone knows that no one can replace Carrie Fisher as Leia.
      - sandworm101 10y ago
        Except for the younger generations for whom rogue1 might be their first sw movie. I run into kids every day who dont know the originals. It makes me feel very old.
    - danso 10y ago
      Fisher has always seemed to have a mature, nuanced take on what the role of Leia meant in her life. Both a love that she got her life transformed, coupled with the bemused resentment of people's expectations and the reality of being an aging actress. Hard to imagine she was terribly bitter about Rogue One. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-carrie-fisher-obit-20161227-story.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-carrie-... When some moviegoers complained on social media about how much older she looked in “The Force Awakens” than when she had last played the character more than three decades earlier, she retorted on Twitter with her typical sharp wit, “Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings.”... ...“It's not always fun, but it’s certainly life-changing,” she told The Times last year. “I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It’s been a part of my life for 40 years…. I’m like the diplomat to a country that I haven’t been to yet. I am that country.”
      - sandworm101 10y ago
        What a contracted actor says in interviews should always be taken with a grain of salt. These are professionals.
        theshrike79 10y ago
        Have you even seen a Carrie Fisher interview? She doesn't have many filters in what she says :)
  - techwizrd 10y ago
    Well put. She was able to enjoy the new movie, and so were her friends, fans, and family. It would be even sadder had she not gotten a chance to enjoy a new installment to a franchise she has contributed so much to.
  - djsumdog 10y ago
    It's just a movie. It's like that old saying, "No body every said on their death bed, 'I wish I had spent more time in the office.'
    - pavel_lishin 10y ago
      But she was an actor; this was the thing that she chose to spend her life doing, and something she loved doing. She wasn't collating expense reports - she was doing something very creative, with like-minded people, to create something enjoyed by millions of people world-wide. I bet there are plenty of actors who said, on their death bed, "I wish I had spent more time on stage".

oxide 10y ago

>At least this was after the Star Wars: Rogue One movie. huh? why would that matter?

rhapsodic 10y ago
> huh? why would that matter? Well, it's nice that she lived long enough to see the part that her character played in the movie, and that her family was able to enjoy it for a brief time without her death casting a pall over it.
- melling 10y ago
  Someone else played that part. It was done with cg.
- sandworm101 10y ago
  Really? An aging actress might not be too happy seeing the highlight of her career replaced by a combination of stand-in teenagers and cgi.
  - tbirrell 10y ago
    I doubt this is an issue since everyone knows that no one can replace Carrie Fisher as Leia.
    - sandworm101 10y ago
      Except for the younger generations for whom rogue1 might be their first sw movie. I run into kids every day who dont know the originals. It makes me feel very old.
  - danso 10y ago
    Fisher has always seemed to have a mature, nuanced take on what the role of Leia meant in her life. Both a love that she got her life transformed, coupled with the bemused resentment of people's expectations and the reality of being an aging actress. Hard to imagine she was terribly bitter about Rogue One. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-carrie-fisher-obit-20161227-story.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-carrie-... When some moviegoers complained on social media about how much older she looked in “The Force Awakens” than when she had last played the character more than three decades earlier, she retorted on Twitter with her typical sharp wit, “Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings.”... ...“It's not always fun, but it’s certainly life-changing,” she told The Times last year. “I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It’s been a part of my life for 40 years…. I’m like the diplomat to a country that I haven’t been to yet. I am that country.”
    - sandworm101 10y ago
      What a contracted actor says in interviews should always be taken with a grain of salt. These are professionals.
      - theshrike79 10y ago
        Have you even seen a Carrie Fisher interview? She doesn't have many filters in what she says :)
- techwizrd 10y ago
  Well put. She was able to enjoy the new movie, and so were her friends, fans, and family. It would be even sadder had she not gotten a chance to enjoy a new installment to a franchise she has contributed so much to.
- djsumdog 10y ago
  It's just a movie. It's like that old saying, "No body every said on their death bed, 'I wish I had spent more time in the office.'
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    But she was an actor; this was the thing that she chose to spend her life doing, and something she loved doing. She wasn't collating expense reports - she was doing something very creative, with like-minded people, to create something enjoyed by millions of people world-wide. I bet there are plenty of actors who said, on their death bed, "I wish I had spent more time on stage".