Simon Pegg on meeting Carrie Fisher: “You know, I’ve always loved you”

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He may have led a charmed life – driven by his unique talents, of course – but at the heart of it he’s a geek just like us, so when Simon Pegg first met Carrie Fisher he was able to articulate those feelings that so many of us had as kids, having a crush on our favourite film, TV and pop stars before we really knew what having a crush was all about. Naturally, the meeting was just about the most Carrie Fisher thing ever.

“I had such a huge crush on Carrie Fisher when I was a kid. She was like my first sort of stirrings of romantic love. And I got to spend a little time with her.

“We had a lovely day when we wandered around the set of the Resistance base together arm in arm. And we were just sort of chatting and I turned around and we were looking at each other.

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“I was looking into her eyes and it was the same eyes. Obviously it sounds really obvious to say it, but I was looking into those eyes that so sort of captivated me as as kid. And I said ‘You know, I’ve always loved you.’

“And she grabbed my hand and looked at my wedding ring and said, ‘F***, you!’. It was the best day of my life.”

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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars)
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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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He may have led a charmed life – driven by his unique talents, of course – but at the heart of it he’s a geek just like us, so when Simon Pegg first met Carrie Fisher he was able to articulate those feelings that so many of us had as kids, having a crush on our favourite film, TV and pop stars before we really knew what having a crush was all about. Naturally, the meeting was just about the most Carrie Fisher thing ever.

“I had such a huge crush on Carrie Fisher when I was a kid. She was like my first sort of stirrings of romantic love. And I got to spend a little time with her.

“We had a lovely day when we wandered around the set of the Resistance base together arm in arm. And we were just sort of chatting and I turned around and we were looking at each other.

https://youtu.be/b6n0-WU6w3A

“I was looking into her eyes and it was the same eyes. Obviously it sounds really obvious to say it, but I was looking into those eyes that so sort of captivated me as as kid. And I said ‘You know, I’ve always loved you.’

“And she grabbed my hand and looked at my wedding ring and said, ‘F***, you!’. It was the best day of my life.”

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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars)
  • Hardcover Book
  • Dickinson, Seth (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 576 Pages - 11/10/2020 (Publication Date) - Random House Worlds (Publisher)
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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