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Along with a large group of fans, "Star Wars"
droids R2-D2 and C-3PO and a pair of Stormtroopers came to the
ceremony, as did actor Mark Hamill, director J.J. Abrams and
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.
"It's sad that she's not with us today -- that would have made
it perfect -- but she wouldn't want us to be sad. She'd want us
to have fun, she'd want us to laugh," said Hamill, who played
Leia's brother, Luke Skywalker, in the franchise.
Fisher's daughter, actor Billie Lourd, was on hand to represent
her mother at the ceremony and receive the 2,754th star on
Hollywood Boulevard. She joked that her mother would tell her
nobody was really famous until they became a Pez candy
dispenser.
"My mom is a double whammy, a Pez dispenser and has a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Momma, you've made it," Lourd said.
Watching her mother in "Star Wars" as Princess Leia changed
Lourd's perception of her.
"I realized then that Leia is more than just a character. She's
a feeling, she is strength, she is grace, she is wit, she is
femininity at its finest, she knows what she wants and she gets
it," Lourd said.
"She doesn't need anyone to rescue her because she rescues
herself and even rescues the rescuers, and no one could have
played her like my mother."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Editing by Mary Milliken and Leslie
Adler)
(Photo: Billie Lourd and Mark Hamill pose along
Star Wars characters C-3PO and R2-D2 next to the star of actor
Carrie Fisher during its posthumous unveiling ceremony on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 4,
2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)
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