hey guys how you all doing hope you're having a good day so this
is something that uh someone sent me in an email and it's a magazine from the
80s they made me both happy and sad at the
same time because it's an old old interview
with carrie fisher and the late carrie fisher sad enough to say um
there's a lot of interesting stuff in it and it comes from her point of view just
after filming return of the jedi or just near the end of it and i think it's
afterwards and there's some cool insight there on
her thoughts as the interviewer asks her stuff about george lucas selling star
wars and how he originally had a plan to make
nine films so let's dive into the interview
and let's check it out so big thanks to david for sending this to me
um he has obviously a copy of this uh in his home somewhere so
this is from the 80s this is pretty cool so let's read it from the top
dynamite talks with carrie fisher uh is it the end for luke
and leia in the three star wars films princess leia roams the galaxies will
she or her co-stars ever be together again
dynamite talked together dynamite talked with carrie fisher who played princess
leia to find out instead of an intergalactic princess
we found a fun to talk with very down-to-earth person
dynamite star wars the empire strikes back and return of the jedi were clearly
marked as chapter four five and six and george lucas has said that these
films were one-third of a nine-part series
now what will his stories continue i swear i don't know you'd have to ask
george but based on what he says or even
sometimes what i read that he says if he could find a way of doing them
more inexpensively he'd do them is it only the money or is
george also just plain tired of the project you bet
he's tired this stuff is hard to do doing the whole series would take
someone who didn't have anything else to do
but just make movies all the time how about letting another person finish the
series i don't know george is very close to it
and i can't imagine that he would just kind of pass it off to somebody else
parts one two and three of the star wars saga were supposed to be about how the
jedis were formed and since by the way if you guys
don't know jedi is plural and singular at the same time
and since this happened before luke leia or han were even born
you and mark hamill and harrison ford don't have to worry about being in these
films but what about part 789 older jedis
would be training a new generation by then
and if the filming were done in 10 years or so the same people
10 years older could be playing their former parts
would you sign up for the last three films if they are done
no i don't know if any of us would do it anymore these things are sort of done in
their own time you know and anyway i'd be about 40 well mid-30s
by then and i don't think everybody would like
that very much when you started playing princess leia
you were about 18. did you know then that this role would
go on for six seven years no you don't think about it that way
when you get married you don't think gee in 25 years it'll be my 25th anniversary
the work just kept increasing and increasing it wasn't actually until
recently that i said now it's seven years during those
wonderful during those seven years mark hamill was
in a serious car accident no one knew if the empire strikes back
would have to be cancelled or if mark would be able to continue as
luke skywalker how did you feel at that time when it
happened a friend of mine called and told me our
first concern was about his well-being rather than whether our careers were
going to go on or not but he was not in any way harmed it was
mostly his face that was scarred and george lucas wrote it into the
script so this is the wampa scene on auth among the three films you worked
in did you have any did you have a favorite different parts
of each film were fun this time we shot some of it in the
united states but with an all-british crew that was a
lot of fun it was like summer camp and also knowing that this was the last
of the three one tended to have a special feeling about
it the audience had a special feeling about jabba the hutt
total reversion total revulsion how did you stomach being so close to such a
disgusting character even if it was even if it wasn't real
well the guys inside the jabba weren't well the guys inside jabba were holding
my throat so tightly that i didn't really have an opportunity to think that
much so it's interesting i guess they were
really pulling on her uh her collar there
her choker was that your scariest moment during the filming
no in the last film i had to have a device put on my arm for my arm to get
shot into and i was scared of it exploding
did you have an embarrassing moment well scary and embarrassing moments
usually all go together when the thing on my arm did explode
it didn't hurt and that surprised me so much that i didn't react to being shot
for about five seconds after it had exploded
they filmed it and used a piece of that footage very embarrassing footage
we all know that harrison ford was indiana jones in raiders of the lost ark
between the star wars films mark hamill played mozart on broadway in
amadeus and you starred on broadway also in
agnes of gold does it bother you when people still
think of you as princess leia not really it always just it's always
going to be something people usually remember you as what you
did last the only thing i don't like is when i'm remembered for something i
didn't do you know like in a conversation when
people say how did you ride those scooters
then i don't want to answer this is rumor control we heard that you
we heard that when you're not working you read a book every day true
no i can and i do sometimes but not all the time
what do you do when you're not working i go on retreats i go away which i'll do
every so often and i take lessons lessons in what piano
exercise art water coloring cooking i'll take anything tap dancing
anything i don't know how to do i'd like to learn to do it what are your
plans for your future i'd like to do more movies i was just on
broadway but i hurt my throat doing it i'm seeing a doctor about that now and i
have to watch my throat it's sad it saddens me to hear to read
this stuff because you know it's like a young carrich doesn't know where a
future is going and of course
is such an untimely uh death and it's just
it sucks you never know where life's gonna take you should always cherish
your life as much as you can uh partly because of her throat trouble
our time with carrie was over all too soon but there was another reason for
ending the interview carrie was in on a surprise party that night for a
friend the friend harrison ford yes the star wars cast may never be
together again as luke leia and han but they are all friends in real life
who knows maybe someday they'll all be sitting around and george
lucas will say hey let's do another star wars chapter
and the force will be with us again suzanne lord i think that's her
name so something obviously that sticks out
to me here is that even when george was just doing the
three and you know when he got to return of the jedi the cast even knew that how
closely intertwined he was with this story
and how he just they couldn't see him letting it go
um as she says i don't know george is very close to it and i can't
imagine that he would just kind of pass it off to somebody else
and i guess this is why he's he wasn't at the premiere um
for episode eight or nine because he just feels like they didn't
really you know honor his story um he obviously gave them the treatments for
you know he the other cool part about this is that
even the cast knew that he had a plan for nine movies
so a lot of people say like oh no he didn't want to do nine he just had one
to six that's false because we can even see
here in the 80s he had plans for one to nine
there's also an interview with mark hamill back in the 80s where
um he's talking about playing ben kenobi and he's like yo
sure enough george it would be great to have you know work lined up you know in
the 20th century or 21st century but uh you know i don't know how how
much i'm gonna want to do an old ben so that was his plan was to always do
nine films and um i wish we would have seen that we
should at least you know get to know the script of it
which would be pretty cool anyways hope you enjoyed this video this was a cool
little blast from the past here and uh have an
awesome rest of your day may the force be with you
see you guys