Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran and others talk Princess Leia’s legacy
Carrie Fisher’s death has had a lasting effect on all of the cast, but none more so than the actresses who grew up watching Leia, a strong heroine ahead of her time
Carrie Fisher, known to the galaxy as Princess Leia, had an lasting impact on the women who star with her in The Last Jedi, the next epic film in the Star Wars franchise.
“[I really look up to] how much courage it takes to truly be yourself when you’re on a public platform,” says Kelly Marie Tran, who is introduced as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi, during a news conference on Sunday. “She was so unapologetic and so open.
“She’ll always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie,” Tran adds. “What an example.”
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Daisy Ridley, who stars as Rey in the franchise, saw many of Fisher’s qualities in her daughter Billie Lourd, who’ll be seen in The Last Jedi.
Fisher was “smart and funny and shameless, and Carrie bringing up a daughter who has all of those qualities, and then some – that speaks volumes to what she did, and in the spotlight,” Ridley says.
