Harry And Carrison

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford in bunny hats during a photo session at the Whitehall Hotel in Chicago - 1977

Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford at the Whitehall Hotel in Chicago - 1977

Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Meryl Streep

“Carrie was very funny and kept everyone entertained. She was able to boss those guys around without looking silly. That was an important part of her character, that she was the boss. And she was also shorter than everybody else, but she handled that great.” - George Lucas

On the breathtaking Rebel Base hangar set built on the then recently opened STAR WARS STAGE at Elstree, circa Summer 1979, Irvin Kershner directs Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher by the Millennium Falcon, for a brief visual comedy moment/gag linked to the ship’s in-repair lifters, which subsequently comedically stall, watched by a less than impressed and smirking Princess Leia-a further dig at lover-to- be Han Solo. This scene, which onscreen showed the one and only time that production Designer Norman Reynold’s specially built prop could move, was an early casualty of scene rearranging in the editing room, and was later replaced by several other evacuation-related moments, including a bridging Second Unit moment directed by George Lucas, showing the back to health Luke talking/saying goodbye to a Medical Droid.