Carrie Fisher, iconic actor and author of Postcards From The Edge and Wishful Drinking, passed away on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack last Friday. Her death has inspired charity donations and an outpouring of tributes from around the world, including from Star Wars costars Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley. We’re going to miss her humor, that’s for sure.
We never deserved Carrie Fisher. pic.twitter.com/4ye6kqr245
— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 28, 2016
And some have offered theories as to why we’ve lost so many cool people this year.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that David Bowie has established a better alternate universe and is populating it selectively one-by-one
— Miss Texas 1967 (@MsTexas1967) December 27, 2016
But at least we now have a small shred of good news to report during this gutting year; we’ll get to see Carrie Fisher reprise her role as General Organa — don’t call her Princess unless you’re Han Solo — one last time in Star Wars: Episode VIII next December. Variety reports Fisher completed all of her scenes with director by Rian Johnson, so we will see Fisher leading the resistance in one more film.
Fisher was also supposed to have a role in Episode IX, which films in 2018 for a release date in 2019. It’ll be a melancholy affair to watch Episode IX without Leia in it, but we have to admit Fisher went out on one hell of a high note:
Carrie Fisher went out the way most women would want to: after telling the world she fucked Harrison Ford in his prime.
— Alison in Wonderland (@mitzy247) December 27, 2016
Yep. She wins.
And we should include one final GIF. Before anyone complains about it, we should point out Leia could use the force, so there.
— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) December 28, 2016
(Via Variety, Shauna, Miss Texas 1967, Alison in Wonderland, and Umberto Gonzalez)
