Fan Forum - The Women of Star Wars #1: Each Trilogy has its strong woman

I can see why :) she's so fierce and strong plus independent

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What Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia Meant to the Women of The Last Jedi

Gwendoline Christie: She was very significant when I was 6 and I remember thinking, "Wow, that character is really different." I watched TV and film obsessively from such a young age, and it stayed with me for my formative years. She’s really interesting; she’s smart, funny, she’s courageous and bold. She doesn’t care what people think and she isn’t prepared to be told what to do. What was really instrumental for me as someone who didn’t feel like they fit in that homogenized view of what a woman was supposed to be is that there was inspiration there. You could be an individual and celebrate yourself and be successful without giving yourself over, without necessarily making some sort of terrible, huge compromise.

Laura Dern: [She was] without shame. That’s what moved me the most about the icon she gave us but also what she gave us literally and personally, which is to carry who she was so directly and to share her story and expect nothing less than any of us.

Daisy Ridley: I don’t think I could really follow that except to say that Carrie’s daughter Billie [Lourd] has, I think, all of those qualities. She’s smart and funny and shameless...I think that Carrie bringing up a daughter who is all of those qualities and then some, in this world, that’s just who she is. That’s her being her.

Kelly Marie Tran: Something about Carrie I really look up to — and it’s something I didn’t realize until recently — is how much courage it takes to truly be yourself when you’re on a public platform or constantly people will be looking at you. She was so unapologetic and so openly herself and that’s something I’m really trying to do, and it’s hard. I think that she will always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie. What an example, you know? I am so fortunate to have met her, and I think she will really live on forever.