# Carrie Fisher in another Star Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700 "2018-07-27T20:55:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/41 "2018-07-30T00:27:37Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > It’s a myth that a human would die in the vacuum of space in a matter of seconds. It is a myth that that is a myth. The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and survived [was unconscious in about 10 seconds](https://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/incredible-footage-of-a-nasa-test-subject-being-exposed-to-a-space-like-vacuum/). The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and died while wearing a monitor [was dead in 40 seconds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Death_of_crew). ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/42 "2018-07-30T00:47:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is a myth that that is a myth. The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and survived [was unconscious in about 10 seconds](https://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/incredible-footage-of-a-nasa-test-subject-being-exposed-to-a-space-like-vacuum/). The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and died while wearing a monitor [was dead in 40 seconds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Death_of_crew). Quick, someone watch the movie with a stopwatch! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/43 "2018-07-30T01:54:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Rescuing herself with the Force, when she’d never shown anywhere remotely close to that level of Force ability, and while she wasn’t even conscious, is the problem. Luke, or even Rey, doing that would have been no problem, but not Leia. And where would she have been able to demonstrate this activity? In _Return of the Jedi_ she didn’t even know she had the Force at all, but Luke assured her she did. Thirty years later she is in command of the New Republc’s Resistance, and rather busy strategising. Then we see her in _The Last Jedi_ and we realise she has been training her Force abilities in that intervening gap. This is a surprise to the audience, yes, but is really perfectly logical. I imagine there will be details of her training in a novel or comic series, if you really care. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/44 "2018-08-04T07:47:50Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Recasting her would be alienating to audiences who have known her as Leia, in many cases, since childhood. If I didn’t know that they brought back Carrie Fisher for Ep 7, I wouldn’t have figured it out by watching the movie. Like with my personal opinion of Gillian Anderson failing to resemble Scully now so many years later after not having portrayed her as she aged, I didn’t see Leia in Ep 7 - I saw an aged Carrie Fisher attempting to play Leia unconvincingly because there was basically no connection between the characters’ physical appearance other than the fact they were played by the same person. Somehow some people think this means that they automatically look exactly the same. So as to head off all the people who will decry me for having such a “sexist” opinion, Harrison Ford looked even less like Han Solo. I saw Harrison Ford impersonating Han Solo, not Han Solo. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/45 "2018-08-05T04:18:24Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > If I didn’t know that they brought back Carrie Fisher for Ep 7, I wouldn’t have figured it out by watching the movie. Like with my personal opinion of Gillian Anderson failing to resemble Scully now so many years later after not having portrayed her as she aged, I didn’t see Leia in Ep 7 - I saw an aged Carrie Fisher attempting to play Leia unconvincingly because there was basically no connection between the characters’ physical appearance other than the fact they were played by the same person. Somehow some people think this means that they automatically look exactly the same. You’re saying that Leia wouldn’t age the way Carrie Fisher did? This is implausible to you? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/46 "2018-08-05T04:25:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is a myth that that is a myth. The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and survived [was unconscious in about 10 seconds](https://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/incredible-footage-of-a-nasa-test-subject-being-exposed-to-a-space-like-vacuum/). The only person to have been exposed to a vacuum and died while wearing a monitor [was dead in 40 seconds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Death_of_crew). Was that person Force-sensitive? We may need to run some trials on Jedi to see how that affects survival. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/47 "2018-08-05T10:38:29Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > If I didn’t know that they brought back Carrie Fisher for Ep 7, I wouldn’t have figured it out by watching the movie. Like with my personal opinion of Gillian Anderson failing to resemble Scully now so many years later after not having portrayed her as she aged, I didn’t see Leia in Ep 7 - I saw an aged Carrie Fisher attempting to play Leia unconvincingly because there was basically no connection between the characters’ physical appearance other than the fact they were played by the same person. Somehow some people think this means that they automatically look exactly the same. > > So as to head off all the people who will decry me for having such a “sexist” opinion, Harrison Ford looked even less like Han Solo. I saw Harrison Ford impersonating Han Solo, not Han Solo. That is why James Bond keeps getting new actors, the guys age out of the role. But I agree Star Wars fans would throw a tantrum if main actors were recast. Solo did OK but did not make money like most SW movies ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700/48 "2018-08-05T12:27:10Z")
_Anyone_ playing Luke, Leia, or Han would have either looked different from the characters we were familiar with, or would have looked unrealistically young for the elapsed time, or both. The best you can do is to find someone the appropriate amount older who looks like they would have aged in the same way as the original actors, and the easiest way to do that by far is to use the original actors. It wouldn’t have been so jarring if they had made a new Star Wars movie every few years with those actors, so we could see the gradual progression of age, and gotten continuity. But that’s not what Lucas wanted to do, and by the time Disney had the helm (and they did want to do that), that ship had [del]sailed[/del]hyperjumped. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrie-fisher-in-another-star-wars/818700.md?page=2)