Interview Magazine: Conversation with Carrie Fisher and Daisy Ridley!
During a conversation between the two actresses that appears in the latest issue of Interview Magazine, Carrie Fisher gave some interesting advice to Star Wars newcomer Daisy Ridley, and talked about crushes, favorite actors, toys, the first kiss and more. Read on for the full details…
Excerpts from Interview Magazine:
CARRIE FISHER: We finally made it into interview mode, our destiny. Where are you?
DAISY RIDLEY: I’m in the car. I just got back from the airport in Berlin.
CF: Why were you in Berlin?
DR: I was doing press there, meeting all the lovely Germans.
CF: So what actors do you like now? Besides me, of course.
DR: Of course you. Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I’m not so much younger than them. I like that. It’s kind of aspirational.
CF: And males? Any crushes?
DR: Not really! I’ve never been one for crushing on famous people. People have been asking me about crushes out of the original film, and I say you every time. They were like, “Is there anyone you particularly look up to?” And I’m like, “Well, Carrie, obviously.”
CF: That’s good. You didn’t like Mark [Hamill] or Harrison [Ford]? This is the only time we’d ever have this conversation. [laughs]
DR: Of course, I like them both! But you’re a kick-ass woman.
CF: I’m your predecessor, I think.
DR: Exactly. You paved the way for all the girls.
CF: It was my gravel! Girl gravel! Girl-vel! So what did they ask you in Berlin?
DR: Mainly I’m asked how I got the role, did I like Star Wars before, and am I ready for what’s to come.
CF: And what do you say? Yes, yes, yes?
DR: I say, “I auditioned for the role because everyone did. I was there at the right time.”
CF: You were telling me about it! You auditioned five times or something?
DR: Yeah. I liked Star Wars, but I wasn’t an überfan like many people are. Which I didn’t realize, actually, until this year. I don’t know if I can prepare for what’s to come because I don’t know what will.
CF: How would you not be ready? How can you prepare for what’s to come in life? You should ask them back. I would be interested in that answer.
DR: I mean, I don’t know what’s to come.
CF: Have they shown you any little dolls of you yet?
DR: Yeah! I got sent some.
CF: How many are there?
DR: Someone said today there were four, but I’m not sure.
CF: Do they come with outfits and stuff?
DR: No, there’s just one.
CF: Oh my God, you’re going to be a Halloween costume. How do you feel about that?
DR: I’ve seen some really cute kids dressed as Rey. I love that.
CF: Oh, you’re going to have people have fantasies about you! That will make you uncomfortable, I’m guessing.
DR: Yeah, a bit.
CF: Have you been asked that?
DR: No, they always talk about how you’re a sex symbol, and how do I feel about that. [Fisher sighs] I’m not a sex symbol! [laughs]
CF: Listen! I am not a sex symbol, so that’s an opinion of someone. I don’t share that.
DR: I don’t think that’s the right—
CF: Word for it? Well, you should fight for your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I was.
DR: All right, I’ll fight.
CF: You keep fighting against that slave outfit.
DR: I will.
CF: I’m looking forward to your space kiss.
DR: My space kiss?
CF: You’re going to have to have one. Every girl does.
DR: [laughs] At this point, we’ll wait and see, I guess.
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Space kiss?
It will be interrupted by a bumbling side kick.
or she’ll kiss her brother… Kylo…
I’m sure an army of shippers are already working on Kylo x Poe Yaoi fanart. Kypoe?
K/P
Uh, looks like it. I don’t want Rey to have a romance in this trilogy, but yeah, what can ya do…
Haha. Carrie Fisher’s messed up. I’m not even sure how they kept her sane for this movie.
No dialogue maybe?
Carrie Fisher lost her sanity a long time ago… Even Harrison Ford is teetering on the edge (if that last video is anything to go by…)
Yup. Ford was wrecked by celebrity, success, and money.
Fisher was done in by blow, booze, and Paul Simon.
What’s wrong with Harrison Ford?
He looks back in top form here but he really hasn’t given a decent performance in 15-20 years.
Well I’m not entirely sure about his other more recent movies besides Indiana Jones, but he definitely did a good job in that in my opinion.
He was still not as Indy as he seems to be Han in this one. The last time he really shined was in Empire and it looks like he might again here. He does want to do another Indiana Jones though and if he lives long enough to make it then I’m sure he’ll give a similarly memorable performance.
Hmmm. Well from what we’ve seen so far, he seems a little too serious for Han but that could also be ’cause a lot has changed over 30 years. Indiana Jones, I thought he did just as well as the other films.
He seems more like his old self in the TV spots. At least he doesn’t seem to be there mostly for comic relief like in most of Jedi. He might have some more good non-SW/Indy roles again before he retires if he does enough of a good job in this one.
Well, in the end he’s the one who decides if he retires. I hope he’s like Christopher Lee though, and just goes until he dies of old age ’cause I think he’s awesome.
I always saw him retiring since he seems more interested in flying now then making films. I think Christopher Lee went on so long cause he usually played supporting roles, was rarely the star, and never made the A list so he had a steady niche in genre films. I think Harrison would much rather fly than be relegated to second banana roles which is probably why Sean Connery retired as wll.
Yeah. I see. But I’d still like to seem him continue on longer. Most just because he’s one of my favourite actors.
He should totally go for the paycheck and do a real Indiana Jones TV series as an old man. There hasn’t been any real action-adventure shows like that in forever and never on a high budget.
Haha. Maybe.
We haven’t heard her talk yet. It’s a very real possibility.
She’s crazy in a hilarious way
Is Daisy Ridley a lesbian?
Just because she saw Carrie as a role model? That’s funny.
It was definitely stronger than that.
My favourite Star Wars character has always been Leia (along with Obi-Wan and Luke), I always took her as an idol, a person to follow. She has done so much impact on my life, I love her really a lot. So I guess you would take me as a lesbian too, huh? I’m sorry but even after 20 days, you still make me laugh.
She was saying how she didn’t seem to care about Mark or Harrison that much and called here a kick-a** woman. I find that quite strange. She also mentioned her more than she really needed to.
In another interview she had, she told that “she wasn’t like ‘guys in this movie aren’t good'”, she just liked Carrie more.
Good lord……….
What a strange question
Why are you asking me?
Google it, it takes 2 seconds.
Also why do you want to know? shit, and your alias is “Talon”, you’re about to creep me out…
Since when was I asking you?
You asked the internet. I am the Internet.
And also she kind of disregarded the male actors and basically was obsessing over Carrie Fisher and calling her, her crush.
This is strange, I keep looking at Daisey Ridley and then my junk moves.
That trash pile in the corner of my office. It keeps moving. Ah it was a mouse.
I keep on looking at Carrie and my Junk moVes
Ha thats funny but only if you think about Fisher over thirty years ago.
It’s sad some of the things leading Star Wars actresses have to deal with.
Yeah they get such a HARD time dealing with all that attention and publicity and money! Give me a break.
It’s nice to know that people like you trivialize the idea of Daisy having to deal with potential stalkers and legions of male fans who openly discuss/criticize her body and fantasize about various sex acts with her.
Sure. Because she’s not starving in Africa, “Who cares? She has nothing to complain about.”
Well she probably has a better sense of humour than you do. Besides I’d rather wait until she gets some real stalkers before I decide to trivialize the idea of it. Thanks though.
Who cares about sense of humor? Daisy has already expressed frustration over some of the fans saying disgusting things about her online. That alone is bad enough.
Well ok I’m just not sure how stalkers are something leading Star Wars actresses specifically have to put up with though. That wasn’t even mentioned in this article. I thought you were just complaining about some of the questions she was being asked tbh. Its all apart of the celebrity game sad but true, even if you happen to be a leading Star Wars actress.
Oh, okay. All right then.
It’s called life and the real world. I have had to deal with racism and that is A LOT WORSE than the stuff people have said to her
Look. We’re not comparing scars here. I’m not in any way saying Daisy has it worse than anyone else.
I am not. If someone stalked her, then yes…I feel for that. But all I have heard is people making crude comments online. Sorry…others are going through FAR worse problems than that.
You know Africa is not a country…just saying.
Stalkers are creepy, John Lennon was killed by the exact same BS.
So if I were Daisy, yeah, I’d be getting a mafia bodyguard, or maybe a ninja.
You are now comparing John Lennon to Daisy Ridley?
Considering the fact that both are/were considered fair game for uberfans / stalkers, yeah.
Being a celebrity can get dangerous and weird, that’s my point,
HA! Exactly. Oh poor them…
They’re not dolls! They’re action figures!!
“Oh you’re helmet’s SO big!” “Of course! Druish Princesses are often attracted to money and power”
That’s exactly the scene I was thinking 🙂
“Did you see anything?” “No Sir, I didn’t see you playing with your dolls again” 🙂
Did you notice how Jimmy Kimmel looks like Princess Vespa’s stunt double in the Harrison Ford interview too?
No I didn’t, but now that you mention it, he totally looks like the stunt double!
I love that movie.
As a matter of fact, I might just go and watch it now 🙂
“Corporal, bring me the video cassette of Spaceballs: the Movie”
“Man, We ain’t found shit!”
https://youtu.be/iwV61t_Tec8
One of my top 5 favorite scenes! I’d pay so much for figures of those stunt doubles.
Well I recall they had Leia and Padme’ dolls complete with Barbie type body. I am sure they will do a Rey doll. I also had a Luke…Han and Indiana Jones 12 inch Ken type doll when I was young.
Probably not as Gentle Giant has the rights to the doll sized ones and those are not sold to kids in retail toy stores.
Well I bought the 12 inch Finn already at Toys R Us. He is Ken size. And they had Kylo trooper and more to come. I guess since they’re Barbie Men size I consider them dolls. Figures to me have always been smaller. I think maybe some guys wouldn’t like to say they want a doll is the problem?
No female characters though. Probably since they are afraid to compete with Barbie if they start doing that. You can only get Rey in 3 3/4, 6, and micro machine sized.
And the size that comes with the set at the Disney Store. And the infinity game figure and the Lego figure…lol I’m just saying after The movie is released who knows what else. She said in the EW interview with Carrie Fisher she has been sent 4 different figures of herself.
Those too but no dolls yet.
Figures:
1) 3/4 inch
2) 6 inch
3) With her Speeder
Probably one with a lightsaber not out yet and in Jedi garb.
Too True…but now what I’m really waiting to see is Indie Revolver’s Supreme Leader Snoke concept art reveal…..anyone?
Someone on here said he’s the same species as Yoda whatever that is.
I think I might have seen that. I believe his species hasn’t been named? In the discarded EU or the new canon. I heard that in this film at least he will only be making appearances via hologram communication… I know MSW had said something about a snake with bolbous mouth and I believe on here a long while ago that he looked like an undead…a zombie. Then of course the people who believe he is Darth Plaguies.
Old EU thought he was a Whill but that was never confirmed. He probably has to be a new species or they wouldn’t hire Serkiss and be so secretive for so long about it.
Well after you mentioned that I went looking. Supposedly this is a poster in a backroom at Walmart to go up in December. Pinch of salt of course… Like everything else 🙂
Oh wow! You should submit that here to the admins. Way too good to be fake and why would someone go through that effort just for a hoax. I really like it, So I hope it’s real
Thanks..I liked it too. Perhaps instead of emailing it to the Admins I could start a thread in the cantina and tag them in it? Or maybe just send it in a message to them in the cantina? Like to viral or pomojema?
Go for it! You should be working for them too. Lol. Seriously, This is a major find if true and I don’t see why it’s not. I’m glad I could use him as my profile pic before everyone else starts to too.
Rey is a different kind of “girl power” female character. No Barbie dolls of Rey then, only “action figures”.
https://youtu.be/LMxTFqPET5I
Probably reading too much into this but I think it’s sort of odd that she mentioned Carey Mulligan alongside Felicity Jones who’s already going to be in Rogue One. Wasn’t she someone they were looking at for one of the films?
You’re reading too much into it. Its just a coincidence that Felicity Jones also happens to be in a Star Wars related film.
Maybe but I’ll take her anyday over Megan Fox and the usual Hollywood models turned actors or former Disney child actors.
If none of you realized, Star Wars has never been a favorite of the females. All the girl questions are for P-R only..
Yeah, the nearly 1/3 of the crowd I saw at Celebration were just…holograms or something.
Yeah but you’re talking about 1/3 of a group of nerds. They don’t exactly make up the core of society in the first place now do they.
In my country before a few days ago there was a riot of female SW fans when workers at mall did not let females into Star Wars playground. I cannot express enough how stupid and primitive those kinds of categorizations are.
I can simply look through the group of comments on any Star Wars fan site and count the amount of females who respond to a topic on one hand.
There may be some girls out there who actually like Star Wars or similar Genre movies, but those are an exception, not a rule.
And even the folks who responded to this post happen to be male, that has to tell you something. Don’t complain about an Obvious observation as “Stupid” if it’s true.
Yeah, because NO ONE would DREAM of going online under a pseudonym.
Only a Man could muster the creativity for a name like “Xtraflo Xsane”
Women can only manage putting their proper name and photo to irrevocably prove their gender.
…. right?
Whatever Fem-Fuck..
I just think the world of the new cast. They all seem so down to earth and nice.
i hope Finn will reflect on Luke Rey will be the Leia and Poe will be the Han of these new movies
Even when you read Carrie Fisher’s quotes she sounds like she’s on something.
lol Carrie Fisher should do all of Entertainment’s interviews from now on.
“CF: Oh, you’re going to have people have fantasies about you! That will make you uncomfortable, I’m guessing.
DR: Yeah, a bit.”
I think the Full Interview is more enjoyable.
Also Carrie Fisher sounds like a fun person to hang out / get arrested with.
nah thats Harrison Ford
Fuck the comments section here. Jesus. I’m off to sanity land in my own head away from you fuckwits.. I’ll read the articles from now on and leave you idiots to it.
So many people calling these to feminazi’s also Daisy have nice tits
wait will Finn and Rey be the new jedi because if Finn is not a force-sens im going to be pissed off
Hmmmm….not sure what to say….
lol.. Carrie has became a bit bold and Daisy seems a little shy at her age, so it’s funny to hear them both talk. It’s a shame that Carrie didn’t like the metal bikini because she was so smoking hot in it back in the day. But I heard that her experience with it wasn’t very comfortable so I can understand that.
She tweeted that she liked it more when she got to choke Jabba with it a while back