Carrie Fisher

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q108941: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983); Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017). Count them as writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Casablanca (1942): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca.
    “The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Revenge of the Sith ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Lucas added a 'No' to Vader's turn in Jedi that matches Revenge of the Sith.
    “same fucking no from the end of Avenge of the Sith.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:13:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars (A New Hope): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars (A New Hope) ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Leia pulls the Chewbacca-in-manacles disguise trick from A New Hope when infiltrating Jabba's palace.
    “pulling the same trick that they pulled in New Hope, that like Chewbacca in Manacles trick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first.
    “We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sydney Greenstreet: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet.
    “He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Phantom Menace (1999): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Sees seeds planted in Jedi that bloom in the prequels.
    “you see the things, the mechanations starting to come into place a little bit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:08:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). The Obi-Wan log scene starts the over-explanation that typifies the prequels.
    “tiptoe towards the problems of the Phantom Madness trilogy, whereas, like, where it's all explained out loud.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:58:53 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Ewok guerrilla tactics echo the Gungan thing in Phantom Menace, though that one is far worse.
    “And it just sort of reminds you of the Gungen thing, which is way worse, but is in the same, like, ballpark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:08:02 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Lego Star Wars: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Lego Star Wars (the host's read). Lego game levels from Jedi are always fun; the prequels' plot-heavy levels play less well.
    “weirdly, like Return of the Jedi levels are always really fun to play.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:31:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Postcards from the Edge (1990): 1 line

  1. people (people) · them, directly: Carrie Fisher ⇒ Postcards from the Edge (the host's read). Postcards is a Mike Nichols film written by Carrie Fisher from her novel.
    “Which is a Mike Nichols film, written by Carrie Fisher”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Revenge of the Sith (the host's read). The Emperor in Jedi sits in a chair saying roughly the same things as in the identical-chair scene in Revenge of the Sith.
    “he's basically saying most of the same thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:11:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

The Incredibles (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Incredibles (the host's read). The speeder bike forest chase is a clear inspiration for the Incredibles chase.
    “This is such a big inspiration too, clearly, on the Incredibles chase sequence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:02:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Carrie Fisher → Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Fisher said she realized during Empire that she was addicted to cocaine.
    “She was like, that is when I realized I was addicted to cocaine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:31:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Postcards from the Edge → Carrie Fisher. Postcards is a Mike Nichols film written by Carrie Fisher from her novel.
    “Which is a Mike Nichols film, written by Carrie Fisher”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (friendship): Griffin Dunn → Carrie Fisher. Dunn was best friends from childhood with Carrie Fisher, per the Bright Lights documentary.
    “Griffin Dunn, best friend since childhood with Carrie Fisher?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Karen Lynn Gorney → Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher reportedly auditioned for Stephanie before Star Wars came out.
    “Carrie Fisher.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:58:10 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Carrie Fisher: Carrie Fisher learned Ubese, the language Leia speaks in the Jabba scene.
    “Yeah, she learned it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:19:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Carrie Fisher: Friend Marie noticed Leia has one long fingernail in Jedi.
    “Leia has a crazy fucking coke fingernail in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)