Though she would star in the franchise’s two blockbuster sequels and attain icon status among fanboys, she never became a leading lady in film, aside from her role opposite Chevy Chase in the 1981 bomb Under the Rainbow. It was only her second film and her first starring role. The highlights are her Hollywood 101 segment, where she traces the tumult in her life to the instability of her upbringing and her parents’ various failed marriages, and the Star Wars segment, where she rails against the innumerable ways George Lucas has merchandised her Princess Leia character over the last three decades.įisher was 20 years old when Star Wars became a surprise worldwide phenomenon in 1977. She’s a witty, charismatic performer who’s self-deprecating but doesn’t wallow, and at a tight 75 minutes, the show never lulls. The show was developed from Fisher’s 2008 autobiography of the same name. In her one-woman stage show Wishful Drinking, premiering Sunday night on HBO, Fisher addresses all these topics with wry humor, turning this recipe for a tragic legacy into fodder for laughs. The daughter of 1950s showbiz couple Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, whose marriage ended in scandal, Carrie Fisher has been addicted to drugs since her teens and was diagnosed as manic depressive when she was 24 years old. Her second husband revealed that he was gay after they had a child together, and five years ago, a gay Republican operative died in her bed. Carrie Fisher has lived an extraordinary life.
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