Almost seven years after her passing and Carrie Fisher is ever-present in our thoughts – as she always will be – and here, Far Out Magazine look back to a comment Carrie made during the Tribeca Film Festival where she looked back to 1976 and the filming of a classic scene that she wished she could have gone back and filmed again.
In April 2016, just eight months before her death, aged 60, Fisher participated in a Q&A event at the Tribeca Film Festival. During the interview, Fisher jovially revealed that certain shortcomings in Lucas’ scripts made her pursue her writing career.
Singling out one particularly troublesome line from the franchise’s 1977 debut, Star Wars: A New Hope, Carrie repeated it three times to illustrate its incongruous nature: “I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit.”
Continuing, Fisher revealed that her disdain for the line led her to deliver it in the jarringly contrived British accent heard in the final cut. Elsewhere in the movie, Fisher employed the same accent, subconsciously mimicking those of her British cast mates.
“Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s leash,” Leia says in her British accent. “I thought I recognised your foul stench when I was brought on board.”
“I wish I could go back and do that scene again,” Hamill recalls Fisher saying many years later. “I really overdid the English accent,” she added.
Hamill protested as he felt the scene was “perfect,” but Fisher claimed it was because she “was working around all of these English actors.”
