Star Wars' Releases Touching Tribute Video To Carrie Fisher

The collective sorrow from Star Wars fans over Carrie Fishers death continues to be as vast as space.Lucasfilm produced a Star Wars Celebration event that is currently taking place in Orlando through Sunday. The gathering has already featured appearances by Star Wars actors, such as Mark Hamill and Felicity Jones, and also debuted a new video tribute to Fisher, who died on Dec. 27, 2016.Above, you can watch the nearly five-minute segment.Composer John Williams also conducted a musical tribute to Fisher, which seemingly received a standing ovation.John Williams' tribute to Carrie Fisher has crowd on its feet #SWCO pic.twitter.com/OWEu3FZaFX Jim Vejvoda @ SWCO (@JimVejvoda) April 13, 2017 Fishers daughter, Billie Lourd, spoke about her mother at the event on Thursday,wearing a Tom Ford dress modeled to look like Princess Leias iconic outfit.She was imperfect in many ways, but her imperfections and willingness to speak about them are what made her more than perfect, Lourd told the crowd. My mom, like Leia, wasnt ever afraid to speak her mind and say things that might have made most people uncomfortable, but not me and not you. That was why she loved you, because you accepted and embraced all of her.Footage from the back half of Billie Lourde's speech. #SWCO pic.twitter.com/AikbmiMeG0 Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) April 13, 2017 The late actress brother, Todd Fisher, revealed last week that he and Lourd gave permission to Disney to use previously shot footage of Carrie in the next two Star Wars movies.I think the legacy should continue, Fisher told New York Daily News. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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