2023-05-05 01:09:28
Died in 2016 of a heart attack, the actress was honored on the famous Hollywood Boulevard “Walk of Fame” by her daughter Billie Lourd, on the occasion of May 4. The day has established itself over the years in the United States as “Star Wars Day”, celebrated by fans of the franchise created by George Lucas.
If the daughter of the actress wore a dress bearing the image of Princess Leia, other members of the family, on the other hand, were conspicuous by their absence: the brother of Carrie Fisher, Todd, and her half-sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh, were not invited. “To be omitted from this special day is really hurtful,” Todd Fisher told the TMZ gossip site. The sisters denounced a “deeply shocking” omission on Instagram.
Complicated family relationship
“We have no relationship,” Carrie Fisher’s daughter replied to The Hollywood Reporter. She accused the actress’s siblings of profiting from her mother’s death because they released books and gave “multiple interviews” to the American press. “The truth regarding my mother’s very complicated relationship with her family is known only to me and those who were actually close to her,” she added.
The campaign to give Carrie Fisher a star had been going on for years: fans complained that her male colleagues Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in the saga) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) had long since secured their awards on Hollywood Boulevard. The actress “was our princess, dammit,” Mr Hamill gushed at the ceremony on Thursday, paying tribute to his “beloved space twin” alongside robots R2-D2 and C3PO, popularized by the intergalactic soap opera.
Carrie Fisher, whose first screen role came as a teenager in Hal Ashby’s 1975 satire “Shampoo,” played Leia in six films, beginning with “Star Wars” (1977). She appeared posthumously in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (2019).
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