Watch Carrie Fisher's STAR WARS Audition and Read Ford and Hamill's Statements on Her Death

Yesterday we got the terrible news that Carrie Fisher passed away. She left a legacy of film projects and books behind her that her fans will always have. Her acting career launched with Star Wars, and as you might imagine, that will be one of the main projects that she will be remembered for. As a way to help celebrate her life and career I thought I'd post this old video of her auditioning for Star Wars with Harrison Ford. The scene involves her talking about the Death Star and the plans that they captured during a raid on the Imperial ship yards. 

Ford also released a statement to TheWrap regarding Fisher's death in which he said: 

“Carrie was one-of-a-kind…brilliant, original.  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.”

At first, Mark Hamill said that he had no words, just that he was devastated. He later went one to say:

"It's never easy to lose such a vital, irreplaceable member of the family, but this is downright heartbreaking," Hamill wrote. "Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all – whether she liked it or not. She was our Princess, 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."

It's still hard to believe that she's gone. The next time that we see her on the big screen will be in Star Wars: Episode VIII, which she completed shooting, and I imagine that Lucasfilm will dedicate the film to her. 

Longer version of Carrie Fisher's Star Wars Audition

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