April of 2001. Carrie Fisher responds to the test of Proust in the spring edition of the magazine Vanity Fair, which bears the title "Legends of Hollywood".
Who are your heroes in real life?
My mother.
How would you like to die?
At home, up to the top of morphine.
If I died and reencarnase in a person or thing, what do you think would that be?
A stone, a leaf, or a secret door.
If you could choose what to reincarnate, what would it be?
The bag of Shirley MacLaine (who played her mother in the film Postcards from the abyss, based on the book of the same name and autobiographical Fisher).
What is your motto?
shit.
responses Are mixed. Acid. Two decades and four years after the premiere of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher is not someone you want to resemble the combative but serena Princess Leia. Is an actress and writer who has made sarcasm and black humor, his signature and a letter of introduction. Fisher does not save the forms as if it were part of the royalty of Alderaan, the planet which he paid with his annihilation in the face to the empire of Darth Vader, it makes a mockery of Hollywood, of the sacrifices which the entertainment industry requires its actors, speaks bluntly of their dark years, of their psychotic episodes, alcohol and drugs. Also lost his composure, and lift the voice to say what he thinks, even if what you think is not politically correct.
My friend George
it Is the 20 of June of 2005. The American Film Institute pays tribute to the career of George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars. It is a two-hour ceremony, designed as a special TV, where stars such as Tom Hanks and Robert Duvall.
Everything is going according to protocol. Men wear tuxedos, women dresses for those who die, the chroniclers of the red carpet. If one is left to carry by the well-known timbre of the voice in off and the place (the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles), I would think that you are watching the ceremony of the Oscar and not an act easier.
Then she appears on the stage. Carries a mini-skirt and a dark jacket. The hair is disheveled and his gaze is lost sometimes, without pointing to a fixed point.
"Hello, I am mrs. Han Solo and I’m an alcoholic. And I am an alcoholic because George Lucas ruined my life". Carrie Fisher gives the first jab in a speech of less than four minutes. The laughter spread throughout the auditorium. The own George Lucas laughs.
"George is a sadist, but like any girl mistreated that wearing a bikini made of metal and is chained to a slug-like giant about to die, I keep coming back for more." The creator of Star Wars applauds this last sentence of the star of his film, but no longer laughs. Stifles a smile.
“Thou hast possessed my image all these years, so every time that I look in the mirror I have to send you a check for two dollars.” The discomfort is noticeable. Is seen on the face of Steven Spielberg, who is sitting next to Luke.
Then, Fisher low tone. He says that Lucas defined a generation, and held his prize, to his way: "I have spent half of his life paving your way to success".
What has just happened is a speech in the style roast, a north american custom which celebrates the award to a character, while their friends will spend jokes. But that night, Fisher was especially aggressive. In internet forums is the question of whether he was, in fact, all what he said to Lucas.
The absent one
How was the childhood and adolescence of the actress who seemed to hate the man that took her to stardom? In his book First part, the chilean Alberto Fuguet describes well the environment in which he grew up the girl that would become Leia.
Her mother was Debbie Reynolds, the star that he recorded Singin ‘ in the rain next to Gene Kelly and he died on the Wednesday 28th, the day after his daughter. His father was a Eddie Fisher, the singer who became famous in the 50s and that the nostalgic Spotify search in topics such as You’re All I Want for Christmas and Oh! My pa-pa.
"The Reynolds and Fisher were married in 1956 and, thanks to the contacts of his wife, the singer entered the world of cinema. And into the arms of Elizabeth Taylor, who in those days still not recovered from the death of the producer Michael Todd. The affair occurred during the filming of A venus in mink and grabbed the headlines of the entire world. The Taylor, at the end, he earned an Oscar and a husband. The Reynolds suffered a nervous breakdown. The little Carrie, for her part, paid for the broken dishes, and began a diary of life", has Fuguet on the separation of the parents of the actress.
When that happened, Fisher was barely four years. Grew up with his mother. He studied at Beverly Hills High, where they are the children of the stars hollywoodenses, and in the Sarah Lawrence College, a private university dedicated to the teaching of the arts.
In 1975 he made his debut in the film Shampoo, a film starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. And the following year came the Star Wars. Without thinking, became a megastar and billion dollar.
In 1980 filmed The Blues Brothers with John Belushi, the famous actor who died in 1982 due to overdose of speed ball (a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin), and since then it was descending into the abyss of drugs. Recovered several years later, a few at a time. Something helped by the publication in 1987 of his autobiographical book Postcards from the abyss.
Comedy as a remedy
it Is 2010, a year has passed since Fisher published his fifth book, Wishful Drinking, now takes the theatre as a monologue. You have a lot to tell, not only of their parents, of what engaged you was the LSD and marijuana, but of his life after Star Wars, her two failed marriages: the first was with the singer Paul Simon, with whom lasted a year; the second with the agent actors, Bryand Lourd, with whom she had a daughter, before he is declared gay.
Wishful Drinking be filmed as a documentary for HBO. The stage is very well taken care of. Simulates an old department, where Fisher will be guiding the audience through the details of his life.
and Then he starts: “Paul (Simon) was married to another younger and I also. The difference in our elections is that my partner, Bryan Lourd, you forgot to tell me that he was gay. He forgot him and me to realize it. Later he explained to me what had happened: I turned gay. In the prospectus of the codeine, which I take you do not specify anything to return to the gay people. It is a súperpoder got."
it Is useless to resist. The Fisher knows what part of his dizzying life highlight to start laughing.
"I recently looked up on Google and I stumbled upon a writing about me where someone was wondering what the fuck had happened to Carrie Fisher, because before it was very sexy and now seems to Elton John. I hurt so much because I know what I wanted to say."
In 2014, the actress would return to play Leia, for the seventh film of the saga galactic: The Awakening of the Force, surpassing those who were criticizing its appearance. Would it not be more princess, but general, the leader of an army that seeks to eliminate the followers of Darth Vader. The value lent to his own character. The courage of being able to laugh about, always, one’s self.
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