Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Billie Lourd , the girl of lateStar Warsicon Carrie Fisher , reveal that she auditioned to act Rey inStar state of war : The Force Awakens . It ’s been a very unmanageable year for Lourd , having sufferedthe loss of her momlast December , followed by the death of her maternal grandmother , Debbie Reynolds the following twenty-four hour period .
Lourd , however , has comported herself quite well in the face of the calamity , have to address the big losses on a very public stage includingStar WarsCelebration in April , where she introduceda tribute to Fisher . Also a busy actress , Lourd has fulfilled her obligations to promote demonstrate she stars in likeAmerican Horror Story : Cult , where she reteams with Ryan Murphy , who also create her seriesScream Queens .
Lourd ’s innovation to playacting , though , came in 2015’sThe Force Awakens , in which she recreate the bit role of Lieutenant Connix opposite her mum ’s General Leia . As it turn out , Abrams , who co - wrote and directedThe Force Awakens(and has just beenhired to steer and co - writeStar war : Episode IX ) , had Lourd audition for the fundamental role in the film that eventually plump to Daisy Ridley .
In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres onThe Ellen ShowMonday , Lourd say Abrams turned to her to read for Rey before he land the actress who would come to embody the role . She says :
" J.J. Abrams called me to get in for Star Wars because he could n’t find someone for the jumper cable . He terminate up finding Daisy Ridley , who ’s an unbelievable actress — so gifted ! But I went in and he end up afford me this diminutive character with a couple lines . "
Lourd said she knew she found her calling because of the comfort spirit level she straight off felt on the set ofThe Force Awakens . Once Lourd shared her experience with Fisher , she get the seal of approving from her mother that she take to begin her Modern career . She enounce :
" I was passing excited . I did n’t know what was going to happen and terminate up going and come down in love with it . I was weirdly singing Jersey Boys on situated and really well-off . I get along home and my mummy said , ' This is really unearthly that you ’re comfy here ; this is one of the most uncomfortable environments in the world . If you ’re prosperous here , you should do this . … You should act . ' "
While Lourd is successfully managing to carry on the play tradition in her family , it no doubt has to be a semisweet endeavor . While she ’s getting to do something she loves , again , it constantly puts her in the emplacement to call back her family ’s show business root in world , which ca n’t be an promiscuous affair to address less than a yr after two devastating losses .
Next up , of course of study , will be Lourd ’s reprisal of Lieutenant Connix inThe Last Jedi . The discharge of the moving-picture show will surely be an emotional case for Lourd , considering it ’s so secretive to the one - year anniversaries of the losses of Fisher and Reynolds , and that it will mark only the second and sadly last prison term she will come along in a film with her momma .
Despite the fact thatThe Last Jediwill be the last farewell for Fisher and General Leia , in all likelihood Lourd will come out one more time as Lieutenant Connix inEpisode IX(especially since Abrams is in charge again ) . If so , it will not only dish as a right tribute to her mother , but a touching way to bookend the saga that began with Fisher 40 years ago .
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Source : The Ellen Show
