near the El Capitan Theatre on the corner of Hollywood and Highland, saw Lourd accept Fisher’s honor as she received the 2,754th star on the famed Walk of Fame. The ceremony, which kicked off shortly after 11:30 a.m. And no one could have played her like my mother.” She doesn’t need anyone to rescue her because she rescues herself and even rescues the rescuers.

She knows what she wants and she gets it.

“I realized then that Leia is more than just a character. It was a side of my mom I had never seen before, and it was magical,” recalled Lourd. People had stories of how she saved their lives. People had tattoos of her, people named their children after her. People waited in line for hours just to meet her. Watching the amount of joy it brought to people when she hugged them or threw glitter at them - sorry about that - was incredible to witness. “People of all ages from all over the world were dressed up like my mom, the lady who sang me to sleep at night and held me when I was scared. There she learned that Fisher was also beloved. Later that same year, Lourd accompanied her mother to Comic-Con. But that day, staring at the screen, I realized no one is or will ever be as hot or as cool as Princess Leia.”Ĭindy Williams, Star of 'Laverne & Shirley,' Dies at 75 Like any kid, I didn’t want my mom to be hot or cool.

“I wanted to hate it so I could tell her how lame she was. I finally watched the movie I had forever considered too loud, and finally figured out what all the fuss was about with the lady in the TV,” Lourd relayed from the podium on Thursday during Fisher’s posthumous Walk of Fame ceremony. “I went home to investigate who this person was they were talking about. While her mother, the late Carrie Fisher, had been trying for years to get her to check out George Lucas’s sci-fi classic as a way to earn cool points thanks to her starring role as Princess Leia, Lourd, now 30, would typically “roll my eyes and yell, ‘It’s too loud.'” But when boys her age confessed how much they fantasized about Fisher, she decided to press play. It wasn’t until Billie Lourd was in middle school that she finally took a seat in front of the television, unprompted, to watch a little film called Star Wars.

Darkhenge by Catherine Fisher