Carrie Fisher called Harrison Ford Affair a "three -month -old stand"
The writer revealed his affair with his Star Wars co-star 40 years after it took place.
Carrie Fisher And Harrison Ford are known to several generations of fans under the name of Princess Leia and Han Solo - an improbable pair that reluctantly falls in love by fighting the Empire. But for decades after the original Star wars Trilogy was released, fans thought that romance was just between their characters. After all, Ford was married to his first wife Mary Marquardt At the time, and they had two young children.
But, in 2016, Fisher dropped a bomb when she revealed that she and Ford had actually had a liaison during the shooting of the first film, 1977 Star wars . She talked about their backstage in her memoirs The Diarist of the Princess And answered questions about this during the interviews to promote the book. During a television appearance, the When Harry meets Sally Star described the "three -month night stand" case.
Read the rest to find out more about the romance on the set that the two actors have kept secret for decades.
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Fisher fell hard for Ford.
In 2016, The Guardian published an extract of The Diarist of the Princess , in which Fisher opened for the first time on the development of feelings for his co-star. The actor was 19 years old at Ford 33 of Ford when they started to film, and she explained that she had tried to act more confident on the set than she really was. (It was only his second film.) AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Fisher wrote that she first met with Ford after a birthday party for the director George Lucas . The case continued for three months as they worked together.
"A small part of me had the impression of having won man's lottery and here I counted and spent the money," she said in her book. "I looked at Harrison. He was ... God, he was so beautiful ... So how could you ask for such a brilliant specimen of a man to be satisfied with me? No! Don't tell me! It is that it was! Even if it was for a short time. It was much more than enough. "
She also wrote that the relationship meant him more than him. "I am sure that on our relative priorities lists, I might have been classified as high as number 15 on its program, while Harrison was my number one," said Fisher.
She never thought it would last, however.
"It was a three -month -old stand," Fisher told hosts told Fisher HODA KOTB And Kathie Lee Gifford when she promoted on Today . When asked if she fell in love with Ford, Fisher said: "I think that I did it," and added that she was "passionate". She also clarified that no one knew the case, including their co-star Mark Hamill .
Talk to The Guardian , Fisher said about Ford: "I don't think, so far, he knew the intensity of my feelings", and said he may have bought the image she was trying to project . "He perceived me as this very confident and experienced girl," she continued. "I don't think he had all the information! And when he obtained it, he behaved accordingly, and he didn't have to do that."
Asked how he had changed, Fisher replied: "He softened a little, you know, to the degree that Harrison can soften. And we stayed together for the rest of the film. It was never going to be more than that. I didn't do it. I think it was going to be that. "
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She warned Ford that she was going to talk to the world.
In the interview with Today , Fisher spoke of telling Ford that she was going to write about the case The Diarist of the Princess , which incorporated the intimate newspapers she held when they were Star wars .
"I said that I had found the newspapers and I said that I was probably going to publish them," she said. "And he said in a way:" Lawyer! "He was funny. I'm sure he doesn't like it." She added that they were both overwhelmed by the attention that the revelation paid. "I'm sure now he really doesn't like it. I love him less now," she said, laughing. "It's just too much."
They only discussed their business once after the end.
After shooting the first wrapped film, Ford and Fisher continued as if nothing had happened between them, even if they were gathered more Star wars Films shortly after. "I think it has been reabsorbed," she said about each other. "You can see in our body language that we are comfortable with each other."
Fisher said they had recognized the case while working on the new trilogy of Star wars movies. "On this last film [2015 the force awakens ], I noticed that two people were flirting and they had a big age difference like us, and I told him, and he said [she puts his deadlock for them, "she said The Guardian . "I think this is the only time we have referred." When asked if he could have wink when he said it, she replied, "No. He is not a wink."
Ford said the fact that their relationship was revealed was "strange".
In a 2017 interview with GQ, We asked Ford if it was "strange" for him that Fisher had revealed the secret affair After so many years. "It was strange," he replied, "for me." He said he had not read his book but refused to speak more, since Fisher was dead After taking the cardiac arrest on a plane in December 2016, only one month after the publication of the book.
"Oh, I don't know. I don't know. You know, with Carrie is by the way, I don't really think it's a subject I want to discuss," said Ford.
