Carrie Fisher wishes she turned down Star Wars.

[Aragorn]

Complete Today at MSNBC article.


Carrie Fisher: I wish I’d turned down ‘Star Wars’
Actress-turned-author dishes on drugs, depression and the price of fame

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Among her revelations: If she’d known “Star Wars” was going to be such a giga-hit, she never would have signed on for the role of Princess Leia; she’s a bipolar disorder sufferer who found relief in electroconvulsive therapy; and when she started doing LSD and other drugs, her parents got Cary Grant to counsel her to stop doing it.

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Too fat for Leia?

At the age of 19, Fisher was offered the role of Princess Leia, even though at 5-foot-1 and 105 pounds she was told she was too fat for the part. She took the role, but, she told Lauer, had she known how big the movie would be, “I would never had done it. All I did when I was really famous was wait for it to end.”

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[Small White Car]

Can you blame her?

While it was good for others, I think it's clear that Carrie would have had a much better life had she not been thrust into the spotlight like that. She wasn't suited for that kind of life.

 

[BlackestPanther]

I am so very tired of these well-to-do actors bitching about the so-called "price of fame". Yes, it takes its toll, but she was afforded several advantages because of the role as well.

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I am so very tired of these well-to-do actors bitching about the so-called "price of fame". Yes, it takes its toll, but she was afforded several advantages because of the role as well.

Agreed. I am currently playing the smallest fiddle in the world

 

[Small White Car]

I am so very tired of these well-to-do actors bitching about the so-called "price of fame". Yes, it takes its toll, but she was afforded several advantages because of the role as well.

You seem to not know what she's been involved in for the last 30 years. She's not talking about the papperazzi, you know.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

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Too fat for Leia?

At the age of 19, Fisher was offered the role of Princess Leia, even though at 5-foot-1 and 105 pounds she was told she was too fat for the part. ..

Too fat???? "Too fat" my ass.

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I am so very tired of these well-to-do actors bitching about the so-called "price of fame". Yes, it takes its toll, but she was afforded several advantages because of the role as well.

You seem to not know what she's been involved in for the last 30 years. She's not talking about the papperazzi, you know.

One has to take responsibility for their own actions.

 

[Small White Car]

One has to take responsibility for their own actions.

I'm confused. She said that if she had to give up all the money, attention, and benefits that came with this job, she would gladly do so if it meant she could do everything differently.

How is that not "taking responsibility?"

I'd have thought that blaming others for her misfortune and wanting to keep the fame and money would be bad. She did the opposite: She blamed herself and admits that the benefits weren't worth the costs.

You disagree? Why?

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I agree. I just think the majority of people do not sympathize with celebrities especially in these economic times.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Carrie Fisher is only 5'1"? I had no idea she was so short. That's even shorter than my wife, who is 5'2" and who I mercilessly call "shortie."

 

[Small White Car]

I agree. I just think the majority of people do not sympathize with celebrities especially in these economic times.

Well, I agree that you're right and this is common among many people. But I think it's idiotic.

"Oh, I have a $1,000 bonus from work. It's too bad Carrie Fisher had problems with drugs!"

"Oh, I have to sell my SUV and there's no bonus. It's a good thing Carrie Fisher had problems with drugs!"

I mean, what the hell.

 

[the Dagman]

I am so very tired of these well-to-do actors bitching about the so-called "price of fame". Yes, it takes its toll, but she was afforded several advantages because of the role as well.

You seem to not know what she's been involved in for the last 30 years. She's not talking about the papperazzi, you know.

One has to take responsibility for their own actions.

There's taking responsibility for your actions and then there is seeing a turning point from your past and wishing you had made a different choice given what you know now. This is nothing more than her taking a cold hard look at her past and looking at that choice and saying "if only...", not that she actually really knows what would have happened had she made a different choice. She could have wound up much more bitter, seeing some other actress as Leia - the role she turned down. Or she could have just been Debbie Reynolds daughter who happily just kept to herself. You never know. It reminds me of the recent episode of Doctor Who, "Turn Left", where it shows the whole multiverse being changed merely by one person deciding to make a right turn instead of a left. You never know.

 

[Plomeek Broth]

I agree. I just think the majority of people do not sympathize with celebrities especially in these economic times.

Well, I agree that you're right and this is common among many people. But I think it's idiotic.

"Oh, I have a $1,000 bonus from work. It's too bad Carrie Fisher had problems with drugs!"

"Oh, I have to sell my SUV and there's no bonus. It's a good thing Carrie Fisher had problems with drugs!"

I mean, what the hell.

There are people out there that have lived much harder lives than Carrie Fisher and no one hears their stories.

 

[Mysterion]

Saw her on a talk show not too long ago. For all the crap she's been through she still comes across as being amazingly together. Seems like she'd be good company for a conversation.

Looking at the original Star Wars movies I think the only person who came away with any sort of career was Harrison Ford.

 

[Siwilliams]

I am glad Carrie Fished took the role of Princess Leia, she is good in the role

 

[Mysterion]

I am glad Carrie Fisher took the role of Princess Leia, she is good in the role

Ditto. Can't speak for anyone else, but many an adolescent fantasy of mine can be traced back to Fisher as Leia.

 

[slappy]

There are people out there that have lived much harder lives than Carrie Fisher and no one hears their stories.

Maybe but whose fault is that exactly? She's famous, that's why you're hearing about it. It doesn't do anything to invalidate what she said.

 

[Skywalker]

Saw her on a talk show not too long ago. For all the crap she's been through she still comes across as being amazingly together. Seems like she'd be good company for a conversation.

Looking at the original Star Wars movies I think the only person who came away with any sort of career was Harrison Ford.

Mark Hamill's done pretty well for himself, albeit in voice acting. Though he has done some pretty awful live action movies, too. But he's a freaking amazing voice actor, so we'll let that go.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Does she now?

Sounds more like a 52 year old woman who has matured and looks back at her regrets at 19, rather than this picture of a poor 19 year old girl who became the spiraling victim of drug use due to her fame that arised out of Star Wars. She would have had those drug problems, irregardless of her fame and involvement with Star Wars.

Harrison Ford constantly distances himself in public in regards to his involvement with Star Wars, while Mark Hamill just wishes that people would not bring it up with him all of the time each and every single time they meet him.

Saw her on a talk show not too long ago. For all the crap she's been through she still comes across as being amazingly together. Seems like she'd be good company for a conversation.

Try not to readily believe what you see and hear on television and films, because there is a fine line between reality (How things really are.) vs. script (What they want you to see.)

Most discerning viewers would try to read between the lines of what Carrie Fisher just confessed in that interview. Just because an individual socializes well in public does not necessarily mean that he or she is well put together. Just look at John F. Kennedy with his sex addiction, football hero O.J. Simpson, singer Michael Jackson, and scientologist Tom Cruise as good examples of people with "high social I.Q.'s" who are privately seriously flawed.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

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Aaaaaah, my childhood!!!!