Mark Hamill Reveals the One Thing He Would Say to 'Sister' Carrie Fisher If She Was Still Here Today
The 'Star Wars' actor reflected on his lengthy friendship with Carrie Fisher recently at the Toronto International Film Festival
Eight years after her death in 2016, Mark Hamill still holds his late friend Carrie Fisher close to his heart.
The 72-year-old actor spoke about her impact and the profound loss with E! News on Sept. 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his movie The Wild Robot, saying he's “never stopped missing her.”
Hamill also revealed that given the chance, he would tell the actress, “I love you and miss you."
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“When I hung out with Carrie, you were guaranteed to laugh all day,” he shared. “We were brother and sister in more than one way, where we would fight, too,” he continued. “And then, days later, it was all forgotten. She was marvelous, and losing her was something that I still haven’t gotten over.”
Hamill and Fisher starred together in the Star Wars trilogy – starting with 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope. The pair played the long-lost twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, who join forces with the resistance to defeat Darth Vader and his empire.
The pair shared a decades-long friendship, along with their costar Harrison Ford — who played Han Solo — and eventually reconnected on-screen once again in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015 and Star Wars: The Last Jedi two years after that.
Fisher died of cardiac arrest in 2016 at the age of 60. The Last Jedi was released in 2017 – a year after her death – and her final film role was her brief appearance in 2019's Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, which used unseen footage from her previous work to keep her story alive.
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In the years since, Hamill has done much to keep Fisher’s memory alive, too. He attended her Walk of Fame ceremony in Hollywood alongside her daughter Billie Lourd back in May 2023, speaking in celebration of his friend.
The Star Wars actor read an excerpt of what he wrote for Fisher when she died, sharing, "Carrie was one of a kind who belonged to us all, whether we liked it or not. She was our princess, dammit."
He continued, "The actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fiercely independent and ferociously funny take-charge woman who took our collective breath away, determined and tough, but with a vulnerability that made you root for her and want her to succeed and be happy."
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