Carrie Fisher’s Hollywood Stroll of Fame Star Ceremony

Carrie Fisher is being honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, and her daughter and costar each paid their respects to the late legend on the occasion. Fisher obtained the star on Could 4, also called Star Wars Day, and her daughter, Billie Lourd, and costar Mark Hamill each honored her with speeches and posed alongside Star Wars mainstays C-3PO and R2-D2.

Hamill kicked off the ceremony by sharing his love for his onscreen sibling, who died in 2016. “I am going to by no means cease lacking you, however I am so grateful we had her so long as we did,” he mentioned. “I am grateful for the laughter, the knowledge, the kindness, and even the bratty self-indulgent crap my beloved area twin drove me loopy with by way of the years. So thanks, Carrie, I really like you.”

Lourd additionally honored her mom in her speech. “I do know my mother would simply be so excited and grateful,” Lourd mentioned, earlier than thanking her “area uncle” Hamill for attending and talking about his former costar. She informed him, “I like you past perception . . . I really like you a lot.” Nonetheless, she mentioned, even when held up towards Hamill’s character Luke Skywalker, “Nobody is or will ever be as sizzling or as cool as Princess Leia.”

Fisher’s function as Leia within the Star Wars franchise made her extensively beloved, however Fisher herself was additionally an icon, recognized for her humor, bravery, and candidness. “My mother was glitter. She lined her world in it each actually and metaphorically,” Lourd mentioned, occurring to replicate on her personal kids, who had been born after her mom’s loss of life. “Regardless that they will not get to fulfill my mother, they’ll know a bit of her by way of Leia, and I’ll get to inform them that the little girl within the TV is my momby, their grandmomby,” she mentioned, seemingly utilizing an affectionate nickname.

Not in attendance on the ceremony had been Fisher’s siblings, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh Fisher. In a Could 3 assertion to The Hollywood Reporter, Lourd defined why her uncle and aunts weren’t invited. “Days after my mother died, her brother and her sister selected to course of their grief publicly and capitalize on my mom’s loss of life, by doing a number of interviews and promoting particular person books for some huge cash, with my mother and my grandmother’s deaths as the topic,” she wrote.

Lourd welcomed her two kids with Austen Rydell in 2020 and 2022. Lourd herself is Fisher’s solely little one, and her father is expertise agent Bryan Lourd.

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