Rumor: Carrie Fisher’s Daughter Billie Lourd to Play Leia’s Daughter in Star Wars: Episode 7?
You probably have already heard the latest rumors that Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd might be playing young Leia in Star Wars: Episode 7. I intentionally didn’t post this rumor because it sounded completely off. They don’t even look alike. There are many indications that Lourd will indeed play in Episode VII and I’m almost 100% sure that she will. Hit the jump for one much more plausible role for Lourd in the movie…
First everything started from that tweet from Carrie Fisher’s assistant Abe Gurko a month ago:
Loving my #StarWarsEpisodeVII girls: @carrieffisher, @ridley_daisy, #BillieLourd, #MaisieRichardsonSellers
— Abe Gurko (@imeanwhat) June 23, 2014
Today Good Morning Britain made the following tweet confirming that:
Exciting news for Star Wars fans from @andipeters – Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd will appear in the new #StarWars film! — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 30, 2014
And some clarification on the role:
@NigeYC @GMB Fact…as I delivered it. Im sure it’s true.
— Andi Peters (@andipeters) June 30, 2014
Now this comes from a fairly reliable source and it’ll probably turn out to be true. Billie Lourd playing Leia’s daughter is much more plausible than playing young Leia in a flashback scene. We all know that flashbacks are not something that work with Star Wars.
So who said there are too few female characters in Episode VII? So far they are six, of course if the rumors are true (Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd, Maisie Richardson-Seller, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie).
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I don’t buy it. Leia having a daughter is huge, so that would mean that she is part of the main trio. But we already have Daisy. Are there two young females in the trio then? Daisy already seems like the daughter of Leia anyway to be honest and she seems to be in the trio with John.
I don’t buy it either. Not only does she not have any acting experience, but she doesn’t really look like Fisher.
The young Leia rumour comes from The Sun tabloid – I would not believe what they say for a second – not for a second. So let’s not give them credibility by giving that rumour legs. As for Lourd playing Leia’s daughter or someone else, I am intrigued.
That’s exactly why I didn’t run the young Leia rumor. Complete BS.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I wish the other movie sites – and STAR WARS sites – would be as discerning as SW7NEWS.
“We all know that flashbacks are not something that work with Star Wars.”
Bless you, Viral Hide. Bless you. :’)
I feel Lourd is unlikely to play anything other than a minor character unrelated to Leia and Luke, but I could be wrong.
Andi Peters?! A children’s bbc presenter….suddenly has a scoop on episode 7?!!…… Rubbish.. That bloke wouldn’t know a jawa from an uganaught
Andi Peters may well have been a children’s TV presenter back in the late 80’s, early 90’s, but he’s a big-time BBC producer now with about as much sway on the scene as Chris Evans (the ginger, not Captain America! 😛 ). He’s a big deal, bub – deal with it.
Lourd is probably going to have a cameo as some random background player. Because if you think about it, Star Wars never had flashback scenes.
yep, maybe something akin to Ahmed Best or Tony Daniels’ unmasked cameos in the club scene in Attack of the Clones.
A Solo daughter is at the very least a minor supporting role. More likely it’s a cameo or a very minor role – it could even be a stand-in part (not stunt) for another actress.
I am not at all so certain Ridley won’t be Luke’s daughter. Just as likely as being Leia’s daughter I’d think.
That is if she is playing one of the kids at all.
Flashbacks do not belong in SW. It’ll just come off as lazy storytelling. I hope they don’t do flashbacks to explain the Sith Witches.
I really hope this news is false. She only kind of looks like a young Carrie. I’d be okay with her doing a cameo bit of an unrelated character, but I’d be a lil upset if she played a young Leia or even a Leia daughter. She’s cute, though.
If they want to delve into the “past”, this should either be an actual recording (like the Leia hologram, a holocron or whatever), or a character having a “vision” of the past (via the Force, most likely).
Anakin’s dreams of Padme dying were in effect “flash-forwards”, and the same could be done for a flashback. Yoda’s teachings touched on how Luke could use the Force to see the past, even “friends long gone”.
Thus the movie doesn’t really leave the “present” and go into the “past”, but the “past” is suddenly visible in the movie’s present, either as a recording or a vision.
If she were only in the movie for a small cameo, then why would Abe Gurko list her among two of the stars of the movie and another person who has been rumored to have a part in the movie?
This story has to do with her playing Leia;s daughter. It has nothing to dow with flashbacks, or time Travel.
When I had first learned of Billie Lourd’s existence last year, I wondered what her acting experience was and if she could possibly have a role in Star Wars VII.
Besides the likely possibility that she’ll just cameo in the background, what if she was Han and Leia’s daughter instead of Daisy? What if Daisy was Luke’s daughter or even an unrelated character?
What if Daisy and Billie were sisters?! So many possibilities…
I’m pretty sure the new “trio” will be Issacs, Ridley and Boyega.
I really doubt that Lea’s daughter in the film would be her own daughter.
i have a feeling its going to be a gang of four or five, with Boyena and Ridley as the two leads, then Gleeson, Boyena and perhaps eventually Maisie Richardson-Seller (sort of like a Billie Dee situation… eventually becomes a core cast member, just not right away…) as their main co-stars…
Don’t believe this crap about Fisher’s daughter, unless she’s playing ANOTHER one of Leia’s daughters. Shes defs not a lead, and i don’t think that there would be a Solo offspring that wasn’t a lead character
yes, i know EU haters gonna bitch and hate and cry “non-canon” at this, but its my OPINION that Ridley is gonna be a Solo-Organa and Gleeson a Skywalker. I even think Isaacs could be playing a Solo descendant…
I think this purely coz the main focus of the Star Wars saga has been the Skywalker line, and even though with spinoffs, etc this focus will shift, i still think that EP VII- IX will follow 1-6…
So whilst i think Boyena is playing an unrelated new character who becomes a lead (young obi-wan in the prequels, Han or Lando in the OT), the focus will be Skywalker-Solos.
Have to say there would be one hell of a backlash of there was anything other than a small role for her… Why go to the trouble of all these open auditions and secretive casting only to resort to such obvious nepotism?
Now there is too many women we need more guys.
what if lea and Han are separated at the beginning of the movie. They have two kids together Ridley and Issacs and they spilt up. Lea gets remarried and has another daughter. This other daughter could have a small part in the film because she is not her and Han’s kid.
no.
Abe Gurko omitted previously announced cast members Gwedoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o. His tweet being used to rationalize/prove that Billie Lourdes is in an important role is beyond specious reasoning. His tweet has no inherent weight or significance. It wasn’t an official casting announcement, it could just mean he’s spent time with the ladies he mentioned on set, and it is the entire basis for the rumor.
Food for thought, and not that any of this matter because we are talking about the movies. But, based on their courtship through the first 3 movies, I would guess that Han and Leia wouldn’t have lasted. The odds would be against them for a long-term relationship. They are all fire, but not a good match for each other.
Eventually they would get sick of each other. I would predict a baby or two and a divorce or permanent separation.
Maybe something could bring them temporarily together again(search for Luke) and then Solo would be diabolically murdered, casting darkness across the galaxy.
Han matured as a character by the end of V. Between that and Leia and the others rescuing him in VI, I can see this couple going the distance.
I do like that thought. The fighting between Han & Leia was the best part and it would be great to see that again. I don’t see how a loved up situation helps push plot & comedy forward. Let Luke carry the gravitas again and let the others have their fighting.
Plus I know it is a little EU but I can see Chewie taking his life debt to look after Daisy whilst Han goes back on the road with Isaac in the Falcon but Leia gets in touch when Daisy goes missing… Find Luke, he will help…
Flash backs is something that doesn’t work in star wars???? Are you kidding… Star wars 3, and I cant recall if it was 5 or 6 that has flashbacks.
Next Harrison Fords son will be casted as a flashback on how han solo lost the Falcon.
But hell… no more family members casting please!
None of them had flashbacks.
This is why it iz called RUMORS peeps. GEEZE !!! Just relax. I bet that she won’t play Leias daughter. I bet Daisy isnt playing her either. I bet the one who is playing Leias daughter is an unknown actress we have never seen thats gonna light the movie world up. There are noooo facts yet about the roles of these girls, and no proof of which characters it will be PERIOD !!!!!
Daisy is unknown …LOL
It could be Daisy’s sister, and they could be pretty different: Carrie’s daughter a calmed, political mind, and Daisy the tough adventurer.
your souce is andi peters – that is laughable ,and justin bieber is in it with the kardashians …..move along to next rumour !!
Why is it that you insist on continually bringing up the family that shall not be named in these comment pages?
She could play the movie version of Anakin Solo, the third child of Han and Leia in the EU, a very minor character for the most part and the least important of the three. Except instead of Anakin its Ania…giving a little nod to Legacy fans. I seriously doubt all this (and the speculation i just posted) but we’ll see. As for Han and Leia not lasting,”our world” tells us they have a 50/50 shot. We live in such a time where marriage is viewed so casually, as we base it on feelings and emotions. Where’s the commitment? The permanence? Star Wars, even though the new ST will probably be more “real” than ever, has always been an escape for its viewers – a fantasy. Is it so wrong to hold on to those “happily-ever-after” stories? Let’s not let the reality of the galaxy we live in taint the galaxy far far away. And by the way, I love my wife more than anything on this planet, but sometimes our bickering puts Han and Leia to shame. They balance each other well. Who says they can’t still go at it every now and then? 🙂
Here we go with the Eu again…
ViralHide – have you seen Kevin Smith’s Facebook status update from yesterday yet? Quote:
“Visited JJ and his EP VII set. I signed the NDA so all I can share are this old Bantha-Tracks subscriber’s tears and snotty nose of joy. The Force is WITH this movie. Holy Sith…”
Awesome. I trust his judgement. 😀
Yep, it’s in the twitter feed in the right sidebar.
I think she will have a cameo and that’s it. She has never acted, so this kind of press, being Carrie Fisher’s daughter, gets her name out there for future projects. Just look at how much press she has gotten in the past 2 days, as I never even knew Carrie Fisher had a daughter!
Nice try troll
Why indeed?
Viral Hide: I replied to a Pomajema comment but the reply went to bottom of the comments section. Tried again but refused – duplicate comment indicated.
Right now we’re trying to fix some issues with the comments. The problem with the replies going at the bottom is a serious issue we have for some days now. Just give us a few more days.
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As long as the movie is great, I don’t care about nepotism.
Yeah, this movie is so blatently sexist now. lol
Nice to know the fanboys have something to laugh at.
OK VH.
Fixed
Good work.
I think it’s cool Carrie’s daughter is gonna be in Star Wars Episode 7.
But I highly doubt she will have a huge role in the film.
wow, she’s a beauty!
Who can say that Solo and Leia do not have two daughters?!
Star Wars 7 is not EU. In EU they have only one daughter, but this is new universe.
It would be cool that her real daughter is playing one of her daughters in the movie.
Stupid
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