"Hello, my name is Carrie Fisher and I’m an alcoholic!" Thus began his monologue this american actress in front of an audience anxious to know the scars that it had left the fame of a woman who became a cultural icon and has paid a very high price for it.
Their live performances to almost stand up comedy in Wishfull Drinking, a show inspired by her book of the same name, became the best way to exorcise the demons that left the role of princess Read in the famous saga of ‘Star Wars’ (also known as ‘star wars’).
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In the beginning, has not attained to the dimensions of that ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (1977) became the detonator of an explosive success from a science fiction story that spoke of the eternal struggle of good and evil in a galaxy far, far away the connected with millions of viewers around the world and became almost a religion.
Fisher, at 19 years of age, she would be the princess of such a cult that even today makes her sigh to the nostalgic and catches on to the new generations with a new cycle of productions that speak of resistance against the dictatorial powers and certain nuances of religious numbered among planets filled with alien beings and ships destroyers.
to have that responsibility of being the heroine of such an adventure film it was a weight too hard for the actress, who was left to carry –making it a little bit of black humor, like the one that she loved– the dark side of Hollywood: that in which the excess and typecasting, acquire a prominence-toxic.
on Wednesday, a day after his death after being hospitalized for a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on the 23rd of December, the feeling after his departure does not stop being ironic.
he Had won many of the battles crucial that you saw in ‘Star Wars’; outside of the recording studios and without his outfit white or the unusual hairstyle of strange moñas that pretending in any way to a pair of headphones giant, survived the death, the addiction to drugs and complications of mental conditions much more adverse.
"Leia follows me like a vague smell", was one of the phrases that summed up a curse that led her to the top and threw it to the bottom of a pit, but he returned to the new stage of the trilogy to revive a film career. At the same time, revived the emotion of those who unconditionally waited for their reunion with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the trio most important aspect of that space adventure.
however, Fisher was not in reality so close to devotees of Star Wars: shunned the conventions and meetings, and once confessed that when someone on the street called her by the name he Read, "pretended not to have heard anything."
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But he was never able to ignore her character, the young and brave princess Leia Organa (that would in reality be Leia Skywalker), daughter of senator Padmé Amidala and jedi knight Anakin Skywalker. Leia gave them a special glow to the female roles in the film.
The actress was courageous, was not to relegate to their coworkers in the filming of ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ or ‘Star War: the empire strikes back’ and even came to be considered a sex symbol from another galaxy to appear in ‘Star Wars: return of the Jedi’, in a famous and controversial scene at the time (1983) in which sported a stunning bikini while escaping from the clutches of an alien, corrupt and dangerous known as Jabba the Hutt.
Since the shooting of that film was known publicly of their flirtations with alcohol and drugs, a moment that sadly began when he worked on The empire strikes back. She recalled the affair in an interview in 2010 in which he confessed that he had survived an overdose.
"I realized that I was using drugs a bit more than other people and that I was losing my control over them. (…) I Used so much cocaine on Star Wars that even John Belushi told me I had a problem," he recalled with a certain tone of irony, since this comedian was famous for his excesses with drugs, which led to its death in 1982.
Looking for another horizon
Carrie Fisher fought with all their strength to win the battle to drugs and even had to deal with treatments psychiatric radicals in the process.
he did Not let himself convince by the depression or the bipolar disorder that also attacked in a new stage, while the toys with her face still adorning the shelves of stores and the homes of many faithful to the character.
Your emotional life also had ups and downs. She married the musician Paul Simon (marriage that lasted nine months) and they say that this will dedicated the song ‘Hearts & Bones’.
Then he contracted marriage with Bryan Lourd, an agent of talent, with whom she had her daughter Billie Lourd (also an actress and who became known in the TV series ‘Scream Queens’).
But Lourd left her in 1994 by Bruce Bozzi, a man dedicated to the business of the restaurants.
that’s why he left her increasingly blurred career in the film and the search for love, to devote himself to literature.
The big screen the atosigó. Nevertheless, his fame, his following roles were not the brightness that reached in ‘Star Wars’. the Appeared in, among others, films like ‘Under the Rainbow’ (1981) and ‘Hollywood Vice Squad’ (1986), and with secondary roles in Hannah and her sisters, Woody Allen, or the comedy ‘When Harry’ met Sally.
Before that, he decided to devote himself exclusively to writing, and the best way to do this was by telling his own story.
From this was born ‘Postcards from the Edge’ (also known as Memories of Hollywood).
In this book explored the experiences of a young man who seeks to carve out a career in the entertainment world, but suffers the interference of her mother, a famous actress that ends up affecting negatively on that dream. Then, the Fisher would be in charge of writing the script of a film production of the same name that premiered in 1990.
Then came ‘Surrender the Pink’ and ‘Delusions of Grandma’. In 2001 he wrote the script of the tv movie ‘These Old Broads’, in which it appeared her mother Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor (who was a lover of the father of the actress, Eddie Fisher, Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins.
"I Write dialogue for fictional characters because I myself am a fictional character", once said.
In 2006, the actress launched the stand up ‘Wishful Drinking’, which also became a book. In 2010, HBO premiered a documentary about the work.
Carrie Fisher was not easy to interview, and when the media started to look for it because you agreed to participate in the new trilogy of the famous saga of science fiction (who last year released ‘Star Wars: the awakening force’), she did not do more to distill their poison black humor, mocking a bit of your status icon.
As when asked in an interview if it was difficult for George Lucas (creator of ‘Star Wars’) to convince her to reprise the role of Leia, to which she replied: "it was Not difficult, I am a woman in Hollywood with more than 40 years, we can even say that more of 50. You don’t need to insist for you to accept the job."
last Friday, the heart attack took it by surprise on a flight back to Los Angeles, where he was to launch a new publication: The Princess diarist, who gathered his memories of the time as a queen who was fighting in space against Darth Vader and the dark Empire. In those pages he said he had also maintained an affair with Harrison Ford during the filming of the film of 1977, almost emulating the chemistry that brewed by Leia and the pilot Han Solo on the screen.
"we Were Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the week-end", counted.
Carrie Fisher lived to the fullest and had the strength to endure the ravages of a hard life. Is rio the pain until the end and he admitted in a recent interview to Rolling Stone magazine that he was afraid of dying: "I do Not fear death. I’m afraid to die. Anything associated with the pain I do not like. I have been present at the death of a couple of people and it was not fun. But if you were to die, I would like to have someone like me in mind. And I’ll be there for you!", the princess said to the that many cry and wish that the force accompany you.
The genetics of talent
Carrie Frances Fisher was born in Los Angeles on October 21, 1956, and since childhood he had contact with the world of the show. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, is an actress remembered for having starred in the famous musical 'Singing in the rain', with Gene Kelly, and Three Little Words', with Fred Astaire. His father was Eddie Fisher, a famed singer and occasional actor who would cause after a scandal by leaving her family to marry Elizabeth Taylor. The genetic continued on its course and the daughter of Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd, also became an actress. She appeared in 'Star Wars: the awakening of the force'; the tv series 'Scream Queens' and will be in the return of 'Star Wars', episode VIII, which will be released in 2017.
ANDRES HOYOS VARGAS
CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
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