Oscar Isaac says Carrie Fisher’s still ‘with us’ filming ‘Episode IX’

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While discussing his new thriller Operation Finale, Star Wars Resistance star Oscar Isaac touched on the filming of Episode IX and the huge missing piece – Carrie Fisher. Despite her not being physically on set, Isaac feels that she is still very much a part of the production.

“Of course she’s with us.”

Oscar described the returning J.J. Abrams.

“(he) seems to me just as excited if not more so because now there’s a history there, there’s a shorthand, and the nature of the story is different.”

And Isaac went on to describe the plight of the Resistance in the ninth instalment.

“(They) are guerrilla fighters, adhering closer to something like the Revolutionary War fighters or even the guerrillas in Cuba with Che and Fidel and all these guys living in the mountains, coming down to do some attacks, and going back and trying to hide from the ’empire’ of the United States. It’s that kind of ragged at this point.”

“You hear about stories with (George) Washington as a general, where lots of people died based on their orders, but that is part of leadership and that push-and-pull in the fight for figuring out what’s the way to move forward.”

“It is a war movie. I mean, above and beyond, it is a movie about warriors.”

SourceUSA Today
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it 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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While discussing his new thriller Operation Finale, Star Wars Resistance star Oscar Isaac touched on the filming of Episode IX and the huge missing piece – Carrie Fisher. Despite her not being physically on set, Isaac feels that she is still very much a part of the production.

“Of course she’s with us.”

Oscar described the returning J.J. Abrams.

“(he) seems to me just as excited if not more so because now there’s a history there, there’s a shorthand, and the nature of the story is different.”

And Isaac went on to describe the plight of the Resistance in the ninth instalment.

“(They) are guerrilla fighters, adhering closer to something like the Revolutionary War fighters or even the guerrillas in Cuba with Che and Fidel and all these guys living in the mountains, coming down to do some attacks, and going back and trying to hide from the ’empire’ of the United States. It’s that kind of ragged at this point.”

“You hear about stories with (George) Washington as a general, where lots of people died based on their orders, but that is part of leadership and that push-and-pull in the fight for figuring out what’s the way to move forward.”

“It is a war movie. I mean, above and beyond, it is a movie about warriors.”

SourceUSA Today
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it 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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