Adam Driver, who played villain Kylo Ren in 2015s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, honored his late co-star Carrie Fisher during his Thursday appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
As you can kind of tell from meeting her, she burns very bright and has just a great, very generous energy, the actor said. For that to suddenly not being on-set, [whether] talking about it in publicity or just in lifeWhen you see her around at a Star Wars event or anywhere, to have her character not only her character in the movie [but who she is as a person] missing from that very small unit is a tragedy. Driver noted that the Star Wars crew finished shooting Star Wars: Episode VIII last summer, when he last saw Fisher on set being Princess Leia (now General Leia Organa).
Following the news of Fishers death last month, many of her cast mates in the original Star Wars trilogy, including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, paid tribute to her sense of humor and the acting skill that brought to life an iconic cinema character.
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Carrie was one-of-a-kind, brilliant, original, Ford said in a statement. Funny and emotionally fearless. She lived her life, bravely. My thoughts are with her daughter Billie, her mother Debbie, her brother Todd and her many friends. We will all miss her.
Its never easy to lose such a vital, irreplaceable member of the family, but this is downright heartbreaking, Hamill wrote on Facebook. Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all whether she liked it or not. She was ourPrincess, damn it, and the actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fiercely independent and ferociously funny, take-charge woman who took our collective breath away. Determined and tough, but with a vulnerability that made you root for her and want her to succeed and be happy.
Watch the trailer for documentary Bright Lights, starring Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds.