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Carrie Fisher died today, December 27 2022, four days after suffering a heart set on while en route on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was said to be in total cardiac arrest while aboard the aircraft, and was not attended by paramedics until roughly 15 minutes after the center assault occurred. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told the press that the actress was in stable status in ICU after the eye assault, but clearly whatever rally doctors and her family had hoped for did not materialize. Fisher reportedly wasn't animate for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes, and while CPR would have been performed on the aircraft, information technology can only practice so much to forestall brain death.

Fisher was all-time known for her iconic operation as Princess Leia, and will be mourned by millions of people around the earth for that reason alone, but her career spanned a considerably broader range than many people realize. The girl of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, her first gig was the 1975 comedy Shampoo followed past Star Wars in 1977. She acted in The Blues Brothers, every bit well every bit films by Woody Allen and Jim Belushi and wrote a aboveboard autobiography detailing her ain struggles with drug habit in 1987. She also played as a prominent supporting extra in When Harry Met Sally.

For 15 years, Fisher worked equally a so-chosen "script physician," writing uncredited polishes of various films from 1991 – 2005, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Hook, Sister Human action, The Wedding Singer and Coyote Ugly, and some of the dialog in the Star Wars prequels (the idea that these could've had even worse dialog than they did already is terrifying). She wrote multiple books, performed a ane-adult female play, and appeared in a number of roles across both television and moving picture. I confess, until I sat downwardly to write this story, I was unfamiliar with significant aspects of her work, apart from her picture show appearances. Leia remained the office she was all-time known for, and she reprised the character for the 2022 film The Strength Awakens. She had completed shooting for Episode Eight (an earlier version of this story mistakenly stated she had not), merely we don't know if any role for her in Episode IX will be recast, written-out,  or if the actress volition be digitally inserted, similar to certain performances in the recently released Rogue One.

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With apologies to cousin "Chewie."

I'm not erstwhile enough to accept seen the original Star Wars movies in theaters, but I do recollect enthusiastically playing Star Wars with my brother and cousins in my grandparents' backyard. He was Han, I played Luke and my girl-cousins took on the roles of Leia (willingly) and… Chewbacca (much less willingly). Our Millenium Falcon was a green Volvo 240 and I'll admit to envying my brother's replica of Han Solo'southward powerful DL-44 blaster. The beginning line of the original movies that I explicitly retrieve copying in our backyard play, even if IwasLuke (and with pregnant apologies to my younger cousin) was "Will somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?" Even at six or seven, Princess Leia was cool.

I don't pretend to know how much whatsoever player truly sees themselves in a character they play, and I imagine information technology tin exist wearisome to be then honey for a graphic symbol that isn't, you know, you. Simply Leia Organa and Carrie Fisher shared at least ane trait: They were both bad-asses who called things similar they saw them and weren't afraid to fight for what they believed in. For Leia, that boxing took the form of decades of resistance against the evil Galactic Empire and the First Order that rose in its place. For Fisher, the demons were more prosaic — drug abuse, a lifetime battling bipolar disorder, and the difficulties of being prominently thrust into the public spotlight at a relatively young age. She was open and aboveboard about her struggles, often discussing them with humor without belittling their seriousness.

She is survived by her girl, female parent, and blood brother. She will be missed.