I don’t understand why that couldn’t be one he’d picked out.
Also, the cigarette in his hand as he looks through the ashtray is all white - the one he tosses as he drives has a yellow filter. That’s two different brands.
It certainly could be, or it could be one he’s about to stub out. Which is more likely: Mark Hamil makes a habit of scrounging for butts in public ashtrays, or one of the most disreputable newspapers in the English speaking world decided to make up some shit about a celebrity to fill a slow news day?
Assuming it’s real, I’m with bup. His wife is on to him about quitting smoking and laying off the fast food and dropping a few pounds. He’s having cravings, doesn’t want to break down and buy a pack, so scavenges a few buts to take the edge off. Eats in the car and dumps the stuff before going in the house. Can’t take it in or he’ll get caught. If so, BUSTED! But it might be a web of lies.
I’m no expert, but why would he need to lift the top to drop his butt? That ashtray appears to have a split bottom tray that swings open. You want to put out the cig in the dish, then push and the dish opens to drop the butt into the container. He has to lift the top to reach in without fiddling with the split tray, so he can see the butts to pick which ones he wants.
But no pick of him ditching the fast food bag, just the cig butt, like many other smokers.
What part of “chemistry with her costars” belongs in “looked fine in her day”? She was beautiful, slender, had boobs.
As for chemistry in the first movie, the character was a competent and perhaps arrogant Senator being rescued by some clowns whose plan left them cornered in the detention area. She wasn’t slinking around dancing with a python trying to arouse her pals into plopping down cash, she was trying to smuggle plans to a hidden base without giving away the location and help lead a revolt to overthrow a tyranny. And the actress was being directed by George Lucas. What chemistry are you looking for?
No, the fact that she’s half naked and looks spectacular (and maybe a little that she’s in chains) is a separate issue from how she interacts with her popsicle boyfriend, his teddy bear friend, and her secret brother. Your gym and lipstick remarks are the relevant items. She had that.
No offense to Leia fans; she just seemed so awkward in those scenes and utterly uncomfortable in her own skin. As though a confirmed butch lesbian was being forced to don makeup and provocative lingerie while feigning interest in a male costar. Or as though she knew the sibling angle was coming. Her role as sexy love interest is so cringeworthy that I can’t divorce her apparent discomfort from the stills. Of course I’m female and not the target audience, so the relevance of my perception weighs exactly nothing against the legion of Leia fans.
Imagine you’re an 11-year-old boy watching Star Wars in 1977. Luke, in his stolen stormtrooper armor, opens the holding cell door, and there’s Leia, lying on her side in that bright white gown, saying, “Aren’t you kind of short for a stormtrooper?” It was a … magical … moment.
And it felt exactly the same 20 years later when I watched the CGI-enhanced reissue. There she was lying on her side, and it was magical all over again. It actually wasn’t until I saw the re-release version (at 31 years of age), that I realized why I’d always had a thing for girls with jet black hair, fair skin, and red lips. I’d always called it the “Snow White look”, but I realized it was the “Princess Leia look”.
She says it is:
While in Sydney, Australia, Fisher revealed in another interview that she had a cocaine addiction during filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and also survived an overdose. “Slowly, I realized I was doing a bit more drugs than other people and losing my choice in the matter”, she said in an interview.
Doesn’t look bad for 56, I’d say. Especially considering the various kinds of chemical abuse her body has had to put up with.
She probably was uncomfortable in her skin. I haven’t read Postcards From the Edge, but she has stated that her weight went up and down between the movies, and has admitted to extensive drug use.
Don’t forget the poster showing Leia holding a blaster and exposing lots of leg. I realize it was more of an impressionistic painting of the character Leia than of the actress Fisher, but I’m sure it attracted many a teenager and young male into the theaters.
