Random Things We Learned About Carrie Fisher (15 items)

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  (#5) She Wrote That She Should Have Had An Affair With Mark Hamill (Instead Of Harrison Ford)

  In 2016, not long before she passed, Carrie Fisher released a memoir, The Princess Diarist, that includes entries from a journal she made while making the first Star Wars film. Among other revelations in the book, she admits to an affair with Harrison Ford. At the time they got together, Fisher was 19, while Ford was in his 30s and married with children.

  Fisher said she became somewhat "obsessed" with the older man, but he wasn't looking for anything serious, which left her with a "familiar feeling of hopelessness." She wrote that because the relationship was so one-sided between her and Ford, she was sorry her affair wasn't with Mark Hamill instead:

  I’m sorry it’s not Mark. It could’ve been. It should’ve been. It might’ve meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

  Hamill and Fisher were attracted to one another, and according to Hamill in an interview with The Guardian, they made out once to get it "out of their system," then "became like real siblings." Hamill explained why their attraction didn't go beyond that makeout session:

  Carrie and I were attracted to one another, but I knew from previous jobs that it would have been a bad idea... [I]f I’d had a relationship with her, it would have been like a full-time activity because she was too much for me in every regard: She was too creative, she was too smart. She was just the best.
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  (#2) She Was A Prominent Script Doctor

  Carrie Fisher wrote eight books, two plays, and two screenplays, but she was also a prominent script doctor, which is pretty much what it sounds like. A script doctor joins a project to rewrite and polish an existing script by adding structure, fixing the pacing, fleshing out characters, and repairing other elements.

  Fisher was often called on to help with a script, and because the role of a script doctor is uncredited as a writer, most people never knew. She worked on Sister Act, Last Action Hero, Anastasia, Hook, Lethal Weapon 3, The Wedding Singer, and all three of the Star Wars prequel films. She was lauded as "one of the most sought-after doctors in town" by Entertainment Weekly.
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  (#8) She Played A Joke On Harrison Ford While He Was Filming 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

  While filming a whipping scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg and the crew decided to have a little fun with the movie's star. Poor-quality footage of the practical joke from Spielberg's private collection was later released online. In the video, while Harrison Ford is chained to a large stone, Barbra Streisand appears and proceeds to whip him while wearing a leather dominatrix outfit.

  As Streisand is doling out punishment, she says, "That's for Hanover Street, the worst movie I ever saw!" (Ford starred in the 1979 film.) She continues whipping him while mentioning Star Wars, and says, "This is for making all of that money!"

  Before she can land another blow, Carrie Fisher throws herself in front of Ford to protect him. He asks, "Who's that?" and she plants a big kiss on him. 
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  (#3) Her Preferred Obituary Stemmed From George Lucas's Dislike Of Bras In 'Star Wars'

  Carrie Fisher once toured the country doing a one-woman show based on her memoir Wishful Drinking in which she talked about not wearing a bra under her white dress in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. George Lucas attended a performance in San Francisco and afterward told Fisher why he didn't want her to wear a bra in the film. Fisher shared the details later at a Television Critics Association press tour:

  [Lucas has] seen the show a couple times, and he actually came over and explained, because [I told the story] of him saying that there was no underwear in space. He explained that in space, you get weightless, and so your flesh expands. What? But your bra doesn't, so you get strangled by your bra. That's why I couldn't wear a bra in the first Star Wars. George actually came backstage when I did the show in San Francisco and told me that.

  She took what he said and added it into her show, saying, "Now I think that this would make a fantastic obit - so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra."
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  (#1) She Didn't Meet James Earl Jones Until 2014

  Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones have worked on five films together, but the two never met on set while working on Star Wars. On the one hand, that makes sense, because Jones's work was done in a sound booth while Fisher's was done on set, but it's still surprising. After all, they had been technically working together since 1977, but their actual meeting didn't come until 2014.

  When they finally did meet, it was when the two appeared in the same episode of The Big Bang Theory. The series' showrunner, Steven Molaro, said at San Diego Comic-Con that, despite the fact the two actors had never met, when Fisher saw Jones, she ran up to him with her arms raised out and called out, "Dad!"
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  (#10) Her Ashes Were Placed In An Urn That Was A Giant Prozac Pill

  Carrie Fisher suffered from mental illness throughout her life, and was an outspoken advocate for others who had similar problems. Her family recognized her struggles in the urn they chose to place her ashes in: a giant novelty Prozac pill.

  Fisher's brother, Todd Fisher, was seen carrying the special urn in Twitter photos that were posted following the private memorial service held for his mother, Debbie Reynolds, who passed a day after her daughter. He spoke about the urn in an interview with Entertainment Tonight:

  Carrie's favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago. A big pill. She loved it, and it was in her house, and [her daughter] Billie [Lourd] and I felt it was where she'd want to be. We couldn't find anything appropriate. Carrie would like that. It was her favorite thing, and so that's how you do it.

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