Star Wars – Bond lady and different stars who auditioned for Princess Leia
Today marks Star Wars Day and likewise the date the late Carrie Fisher might be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 60-year-old died in 2016 having wrapped on Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, earlier than deleted scenes from The Force Awakens had been utilized in The Rise of Skywalker.
The daughter of Hollywood royalty Debbie Reynolds, who tragically died a day after her daughter, was forged as Princess Leia at simply 19 in George Lucas’ authentic 1977 basic.
Along with having an affair with Han Solo star Harrison Ford on set, her efficiency as Darth Vader’s daughter went on to grow to be a feminist icon of cinema.
Yet do you know Fisher beat quite a few main girls to the function?
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Over two dozen actresses reportedly auditioned for the function together with Glenn Close, Farrah Fawcett, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sigourney Weaver, Lalla Ward, Cybill Shepherd, Anjelica Huston, Kim Basinger, Terri Nunn, Cindy Williams, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis. Meanwhile, Meryl Streep virtually bagged the half, with Fisher commenting in 2015: “I’ve never heard that one. But Jodie Foster was up for it… that one I knew the most. Amy Irving and Jodie. And I got it.”
In reality, following her loss of life, followers petitioned for Streep to exchange Fisher as Leia in The Rise of Skywalker, however director JJ Abrams went with the deleted scenes as an alternative. Another well-known actress who auditioned for Leia was one in all Roger Moore’s most well-known Bond girls.
Before being thought-about for Star Wars, Jane Seymour performed Solitaire in Moore’s first James Bond film, 1973’s Live and Let Die. In the tip, she went on to play Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, which hit cinemas in 1977, the identical yr as Star Wars.
Meanwhile, Moore himself would take Bond into house in 1979’s Moonraker following the success of the sci-fi blockbuster. This paid off handsomely with the 007 movie being essentially the most profitable of all its predecessors.