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Fisher appeared posthumously in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) via unreleased footage from The Force Awakens. Fisher's memoir, The Princess Diarist, was released in November 2016. The book is based on diaries she kept while filming the original Star Wars trilogy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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By Matthew Adler
Updated: Feb 14, 2020 7:27 pm
Posted: Dec 31, 2019 2:33 pm
Carrie Fisher, known for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the Star Wars saga, passed away on December 27, 2016. Now, more than three years (and two films) later, we find out how Carrie Fisher's posthumous performance was included in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
SPOILERS AHEAD for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Rise of Skywalker's writer and director J.J. Abrams and crew share how Fisher's performance was created. Earlier this year, Abrams said he didn't want to recast the part, or have Leia suddenly disappear, as it wouldn't feel right. He also wanted to avoid creating a CGI version of Fisher, like what was featured in Rogue One.
Instead, Abrams realized they had some unused footage from when he shot The Force Awakens, and crafted a narrative around Fisher's performances. The challenge lay in carefully piecing the shots together. "It was a bit like having a dozen pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and then having to make other pieces around it and paint a cohesive image from these separate pieces," he explained.
Chris Terrio, co-screenwriter, added, "We were able to find moments that felt completely true to this situation that she was in in The Force Awakens, but also had a lot of overlap with her predicament in The Rise of Skywalker. She’s [still] the leader of the Resistance, she has this enormous responsibility on her shoulders, she's carrying the grief of what happened to her son, and now in The Rise of Skywalker she's also carrying the grief of what happened to Han on her. We tried to stay really true to Carrie's intentions in the scenes."
The next step was determining how to actually use the spare footage. "We started looking at what these shots were, we started writing scenes around these shots, completely new contexts, new locations, new situations," Abrams said. "The one thing I'll say is that whenever you see Carrie, we completely constructed, lit, and composed the shots around the original pieces that we had."
Even though Fisher's original expressions remain intact, everything else was rendered by visual effects artists. Roger Guyett, a visual effects supervisor, explained, "We didn't want it to look as though we'd taken footage from another movie and used it. We wanted it to look as though it was really part of this one." Much of the time a digital body was utilized to ensure it matched Fisher's natural movements, like the small details of moving her face.
There were often multiple takes of Fisher reciting the same lines that the filmmakers worked with until they found one that fit the scene. "The scene, for example, in which she says, 'Do me a personal favor, be optimistic,' Carrie had various takes of that that were a little more serious, and she had a few takes of it that were a little bit more funny," Terrio said. "In any of Carrie's performances as Leia, there is sincerity, and earnestness, and softness, but there's also a hard edge to her as a leader, and there's also sort of a biting, sardonic edge to her humor. We did as much as we could with the limited options available."
Abrams gives much credit to Rise of Skywalker's star Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the new trilogy, with her performances in the scenes with Fisher. "In these scenes with Leia, I was watching her off-camera on the set as we were shooting the other side of the scene. There she was, acting with Carrie in a way that made me believe it, looking at the monitor. And I thought, if we can pull this off — which with these people I knew we could — Daisy was the one who was selling it in a way that really made me hopeful on the set."
One of the scenes included Fisher's final moments on screen as Leia Organa, just before Leia became one with the Force. "It was so brave of Billie, when Carrie is going off. The person helping her off is her daughter, in the last shot that we see of [Leia] before her death," said Terrio. "Every time I see that scene I'm just moved by Billie's bravery that she wanted to do this for her mother."
What did you think of Leia's inclusion in The Rise of Skywalker? Share your thoughts in the comments.
- Matthew Adler
Nov 17, 2020 · Unfortunately, the film’s production was surrounded in sadness, as the legendary Princess Leia actor Carrie Fisher died during the filming of the previous film in the series, The Last...
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Dec 6, 2019 · Princess-turned-General Leia is still a force in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, even as the movie premieres three years after the death of star Carrie Fisher.
Dec 27, 2017 · Carrie Fisher had completed filming her role as Leia for the new Star Wars movie, out Dec. 15, months before her sudden death last December at age 60.
