Oscar Isaac Reveals Filming Intense Scene with Carrie Fisher for The Last Jedi

Isaac, Boyega, Fisher on set
Isaac, Boyega and Fisher on set

 

When Star Wars actors attend premieres for other films, they will undoubtedly always be asked about Star Wars. This was no different when Poe Dameron himself, Oscar Isaac, hit the red carpet for The Promise Tuesday night. Isaac revealed that on his first day on set for The Last Jedi he was thrown right into the fire, filming a “pretty intense” scene with Carrie Fisher.

 

 

Speaking with Business Insider, Isaac discussed one of his favorite scenes between Poe and Leia in The Last Jedi that took upwards of 25 takes to shoot.

 

“It was basically my first day [on set] and we did about 25 takes total. Half of them were on me and half of them were on her.  I can’t give anything away but there was a scene where there was some physicality there and it was shot just over and over and over. She relished the physicality of it, let me just say. It was pretty intense. It will be funny to see what they cut together based on that.”

 

It sounds like the pensive and reserved Leia we saw in The Force Awakens is taking a back seat, and the General is coming to the surface. Perhaps the loss of Han Solo at the hands of her son and decimation of several New Republic planets has sparked a fire in Leia that we haven’t seen since she was blasting Scout troopers on the Forest Moon of Endor.

 

Johnson and Fisher on set of The Last Jedi

 

Isaac went on to talk about Carrie’s vibe on set, how she was very involved and always bringing her signature humor to any given situation:

 

“At every moment she would just wander over with her Coke — she was constantly drinking Coca-Cola — and find a way to undercut the situation or to cut through something to make me laugh.”

 

We already know Fisher was very hands on for The Last Jedi and wasn’t just a nostalgia act handed a script to memorize. At the Star Wars Celebration panel this past Friday Rian Johnson talked about meeting with Carrie at her home to discuss the script and her character:

 

“I connected with her as a writer. She is a brilliant writer, an incredible mind. We’d sit on her bed for hours and go through the script, and have stream of consciousness ad-lib poetry sessions, and after hours a four word line would stand out.”

Johnson and Fisher on set of The Last Jedi
Johnson and Fisher on set of The Last Jedi

 

You can find the full Business Insider piece here: Business Insider Article on Oscar Isaac

 

 

Carrie Fisher has always been known to be spirited, hilarious, and a brilliant writer, and it sounds like we are getting every bit of those traits in her final performance. As Kathleen Kennedy said at Celebration:

 

“Carrie is remarkable in the movie. What Rian wrote and the performance she ends up giving is an amazing tribute to her talent.”

 

Lucasfilm has made it clear they have no intentions of using a CGI version of Fisher and that she will not be appearing at all in Episode IX. This will be the final time we see Carrie Fisher in a Star Wars movie, and if what we are hearing from the director, cast, and crew is true, she is going out on top. I have a good feeling about this.

 

 

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John Hoey is the Lead Editor and Senior Writer for Star Wars News Net and the host of The Resistance Broadcast podcast"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."

67 thoughts on “Oscar Isaac Reveals Filming Intense Scene with Carrie Fisher for The Last Jedi

  • April 20, 2017 at 7:54 pm
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    Such a shame. My brother had a heart attack two years ago and his doctor made him give up Coke. I have stopped drinking it as well.

    • April 20, 2017 at 8:08 pm
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      All things in moderation, my son…

      • April 20, 2017 at 8:32 pm
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        Unfortunately there’s nothing moderate about drinking soda.

        • April 20, 2017 at 8:51 pm
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          Ehhh…if you eliminate added sugar, strip down to healthier, natural sweeteners (like stevia) in stuff like your iced tea, you can totally treat yourself to a few cans of Coke over the weekends. Any diet change predicated on complete denial of something is ultimately doomed to fail – adjustments can always be made to tip the scales in your favor…

          • April 20, 2017 at 9:08 pm
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            It’s very hard to know what exactly contributed to her death.

          • April 20, 2017 at 10:48 pm
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            And guess what, Carrie was very honest about all that stuff right?

          • April 21, 2017 at 3:05 am
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            Most definitely – some of her books in bleak detail too…kinda sad, actually

          • April 21, 2017 at 2:00 am
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            Soda of any kind will put you on the fast track to insulin resistance. Then factor in total carb intake which is so prevalent in the western diet. You’re wrong about the denial of something doomed to failure. I quit all sugar, I was a sugar junkie, took me 4 years to break the grip it held over me. Now, I no longer think about it. Don’t need it, don’t miss it.

      • April 20, 2017 at 9:11 pm
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        including moderation.

    • April 21, 2017 at 5:33 am
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      The type of coke that most likely weakened Carrie’s heart was not the liquid kind…

  • April 20, 2017 at 8:00 pm
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    Spoiler:
    Well, according to the first picture, Finn does wake up from his hyper-crypt.

      • April 20, 2017 at 8:23 pm
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        So, do you have prior visual confirmation that Finn escapes his snow globe, because this is the first proof I’ve seen of it.
        btw, nice beard.

          • April 20, 2017 at 9:08 pm
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            Spoiler:
            Well, according to this link above, Finn learns to ride a cat-horse in Episode 8

          • April 20, 2017 at 9:22 pm
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            Wow…you ARE Captain Obvious!

          • April 21, 2017 at 7:19 pm
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            Irony = Repeatedly pointing out to everyone that someone is obviously behaving like a Captain Obvious.
            ;P

          • April 22, 2017 at 3:27 pm
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            Deflection: Ignoring or turning away either an internal or external emotional trigger in order to prevent full recognition or awareness of associated material…e.g., painful memories.

            (See, I can use a dictionary too!)

            Or, in this case: Making an asinine statement about Finn being ‘up & about’ during Ep. VIII, when it’s been photographed, discussed, even documented (+1 year ago) accounts of his workout routine for The Last Jedi:
            http://movieweb.com/star-wars-8-finn-john-boyega-workout-routine/

            So yeah, dumbass…you are Captain Obvious. Soak it in!

          • April 24, 2017 at 1:43 pm
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            LOL. Can you say it one more time for the record? 🙂

          • April 20, 2017 at 10:37 pm
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            Looking at this again after the Rebels trailer.. any chance this is a giant wolf?

          • April 24, 2017 at 1:55 pm
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            I’m glad Juan posted this picture. I have never seen it before. I guess it could be some kind of wolf. I just hope it doesn’t have facial movements like Falcor.

        • April 20, 2017 at 9:11 pm
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          Not visual, but John Boyega has been saying in recent interviews that Finn is going to be more hard-core in this movie.

    • April 20, 2017 at 8:10 pm
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      And is that Ello Asty lurking in the background?

      • April 20, 2017 at 9:12 pm
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        unfortunately Ello Asty died during the battle at Starkiller base. However that is an Abednedo, one of his species.

  • April 20, 2017 at 8:01 pm
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    Anyone else think a big reason why the original trilogy’s dialogue was so much better than the prequel trilogy is the fact that Carrie, Mark and Harrison would basically ignore George’s dialogue and write their own when it was too awkward?

    Carrie in particular seemed heavily involved in her own dialogue

    • April 20, 2017 at 9:10 pm
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      For sure. George was always a visionary when it comes to overall story and world-building/visual design. But the man does NOT have a way with words. In a perfect world, each Star Wars movie (And Indiana Jones, for that matter) would say “Story by George Lucas”, “Executive Producer George Lucas” and then have someone else in the Director and Screenwriter credits.

      • April 20, 2017 at 11:25 pm
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        Preach Brother! Testify!

        I still have a ton of respect and admiration for “The Creator” George Lucas, but he obviously had some areas where he excelled as a storyteller/filmmaker and other areas where he was very weak. Writing dialog and directing actors were obviously not his greatest strengths. It’s pretty impressive that A New Hope turned out as awesome as it did, considering these facts.

    • April 20, 2017 at 10:11 pm
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      While I agree Geroge isnt the best at dialgoue I also feel it simply comes to the nature of the prequel characters.
      The orginal triology trio were rogues (han a smuggler, luke a common farmer and Leia, while a princess/senator, had a rebelious personality). Thus it feel natural that they would talk like ordinary people.
      Padme for example was a Queen then Senator who didnt really experience battle like Leia did in the rebellion. It would feel odd for Padme to say lines like “get this walking carpet out of my way”.
      Anakin and Obi-wan were essentially raised as monks. I actually support the “I hate sand” line because its not like Yoda is teaching chat up lines in the temple.

      • April 20, 2017 at 10:46 pm
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        hmm i do agree that the dialogue style/structure had to be different than the prequels but that reasoning kind of feels like a cop out to me. Leia, for example was royalty and a senator, and still gave the “walking carpet” line

        Regardless, I’m not a prequel hater or anything like that. just commenting that Carrie may have helped George make the dialogue feel more realistic

        • April 20, 2017 at 10:59 pm
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          Yeah, I can see where you are coming from. My argument is that the line delivery and direction of the actors, sucked. Seriously, anyone other than Lucas could have made some of those lines passable.

          The PT, while I do not like as movies, I find so disheartening because some of the ideas are absolutely brilliant. It is why I actually liked Legends and what they did with the PT era. Beats most of the post-ROTJ era by quite a bit.

          And really, I find the PT world a lot cooler in aesthetic and themes. Especially, when you read books, like Plaugeis, ShatterPoint etc. Great standalone books that take advantage of the sandbox

    • April 20, 2017 at 10:28 pm
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      No, there is a famous story where she tried to do that and he told her to take it more seriously.

      Although it is likely that by the time of the prequels, people were too in awe of George to try that.
      But ANH is the only one written solely by him. Kasdan did the other two and the dialogue is better.

      • April 20, 2017 at 10:39 pm
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        True, I’m just think about the pictures that came out late last year or so with the script marked up by Carrie adjusting the dialogue in ANH. (if i’m remembering that correctly)

        And of course the story of Harrison ad libbing the famous “i know” scene. But that is true that Kasdan took over there.

        • April 21, 2017 at 4:44 am
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          That was proven false. Those pages were from Empire and they were taken from The making of the Empire Strikes Back book. They were Kershnver’s revisions.

    • April 21, 2017 at 5:30 am
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      Good editing in ANH, plus Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz polished that script.
      Kasdan wrote Empire and Jedi.

  • April 20, 2017 at 8:05 pm
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    Does physicality mean we will get to see Leia fighting ? Maybe using force skills ?

    • April 20, 2017 at 10:02 pm
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      I like the idea that the force sort of “protects her” as in she istn trained to use it actively it just comes out naturally in life or death situations.
      Say some debris isfalling she will intsictively raise her hands and force holds the derbis in the air.

    • April 20, 2017 at 10:50 pm
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      I always wanted Leia to have some indirect Force Power, like Battle Mediation like Bastilla did for KOTOR; where she can inspire her forces and give them the ability to fight better.

      Because, I’ll be clear; I liked Legends, but the decision to make Leia a Jedi I never really liked. A lot of it was simply due to Leia I always saw her strength being with words and political knowledge; rather than actually fighting. And in my view, I find that just as valuable.

      So when I read Claudia Gray’s novel, Bloodline; it was nice to see the New Canon didn’t go that route. Because, really when you consider the fact she was raised by Bail Organa; she was born into a world of politics. And it makes much more sense that she continues that role.

  • April 20, 2017 at 8:25 pm
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    Leia using the force? Yes please.

  • April 20, 2017 at 9:07 pm
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    It was rumored last year that Leia had a scene on attacked ship where she uses the force to help save the ship or something to that effect.

  • April 20, 2017 at 10:54 pm
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    There are times I forget that Carrie Fisher is a really good writer. And if one sees her career post-SWs she’s got some writing chops. So to know; she was active with Rian Johnson actually puts a smile to my face. Because, yeah; I argue that actors should be involved with their characters.

    But really; I argue depending on the writers most actors should trust them. of course there are exceptions. But Fisher’s writing background really does give her a lot of merit.

    As for TLJ, my hope is that we actually see more of Leia in the political element. I make it no surprise that I love Leia as a character. Even as a child, she was my second favorite after Luke. And Legends made me love her, as well as, Claudia Gray’s Book, Bloodline. An excellent novel in my humble opinion.

    Because, I honestly think that would be fitting to see Carrie last performance in this role. Because, really I do want to learn about the political ramifications of the destruction of the New Republic and this new war. And what better way than to see it through a familiar character.

    Just don’t do taxation policies. Anything but that.

    • April 20, 2017 at 10:55 pm
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      Also, a quick question: Did Carrie have any involvement in TFA”s screenplay, namely in regards to her character? I ask because some of her lines fell flat. I’ll give her a pass because I know she has been out of acting for years.

  • April 20, 2017 at 11:54 pm
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    Incredibly LAME for Kathleen Kennedy to WRITE OFF Leia for Episode 9 — especially when it is CLEAR that Carrie’s family would give the BLESSING for her to be included. So DISAPPOINTING.

    • April 21, 2017 at 12:04 am
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      K kennedy is a witch.. but maybe there isnt enough footage left to make her appear in episode 9

    • April 21, 2017 at 12:06 am
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      Possibly even more controversial, Kennedy never said “Leia” just Carrie. So there will be a lot of arguments and debate over whether they will recast Leia, under the assumption she survives The Last Jedi.

      • April 21, 2017 at 12:15 am
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        It’s true that she said “Carrie” and not “Leia,” but it really seemed like she was referring to the character, not the actress. I certainly hope that’s the case anyway – I’m strongly opposed to a recast. I do find it odd though that KK would give away such a big spoiler for 8 – essentially telling us that Leia won’t make it through the movie. Again, this assumes Leia won’t be recast. If they do I think it will be a HUGE mistake – bigger than Jar-Jar plus Ewoks plus Midichlorians times a million!

        • April 22, 2017 at 5:16 am
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          I am a huge Carrie Fisher fan. Her death was devastating. I’m still grieving over your passing till this day.

          As much as I don’t want anyone else to play the character of Leia, recasting is the only way to go if she survives TLJ. I think her character arc is important to the character arc of her son. A mother’s love and bond with her child is strong. If KK and LF wants to uplift women even more in SW then they’re not going to kill Leia off.

          I believe if Carrie Fisher was still alive, and for some reason she could not act anymore, she would want the character of Leia to continue on. Leia is the only character in SW that was and is a mother, sister, wife, senator, rebel leader, princess, and general and has the fore too. They can’t just kill her off.

          Rest in Peace Carrie Fisher, I love you…we all love you!

      • April 21, 2017 at 6:10 pm
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        The CEO of LFL isn’t gonna play games like that.

    • April 21, 2017 at 1:22 am
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      because Kathleen Kennedy think that things in starwars are simple and if they change something nobody would notice. She is a moron who takes advantage of hardcore fans

    • April 21, 2017 at 1:29 am
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      So I guess you’re assuming Leia was supposed to live past Episode 8?

      • April 21, 2017 at 3:01 am
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        Disney got an insurance payout because she was expected to be in Episode 9, so yeah.

    • April 21, 2017 at 3:25 pm
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      God, you are without a doubt the most small minded and infuriating regular poster here. You have no idea what the story is going to be and why the decisions made so far have been made.

      Just shut up and go back to demanding more Vader in everything.

      • April 22, 2017 at 1:11 am
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        It IS like BUTTER.

        • April 22, 2017 at 5:52 pm
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          Mmmmmmm…butter

    • April 21, 2017 at 3:40 pm
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      Your posts remind me of Trump’s tweets. They are usually very pessimistic, judge situations based on feelings rather than knowledge and use allcaps when they shouldn’t. SAD!

    • April 21, 2017 at 6:08 pm
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      It is CLEAR that the member of her family in question didn’t understand what he was saying. They met with the family and they are all happy. So chill.

    • April 22, 2017 at 5:08 am
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      I don’t think Lucasfilm is writing Leia out of Episode 9, I think they said Carrie Fisher will not be in it. I’m guessing they’re recasting.

  • April 21, 2017 at 3:23 pm
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    Despite the frankly crap trailer, I reckon this movie is going to be vastly superior to Force Awakens. I have a feeling it will lift Carrie and Mark Hamill out of the Star Wars shadow of Harrison.

    • April 21, 2017 at 8:30 pm
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      It was a teaser. And how many times did you watch the “crap trailer?”

      • April 22, 2017 at 9:01 am
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        Twice.

    • April 22, 2017 at 12:43 am
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      Better than TFA? Maybe considering anyone can trip over that low bar but Carrie and Mark will always be D-List actors at best though each can be considered A-list far as script doctoring and voice acting goes.

      Fisher was the clear weak link in TFA far as acting goes but considering she has been out of the game for so long it was kind of expected. I doubt Hamill will be much better tbh considering he hasn’t starred in anything for ages but at least he’s been keeping active in animation.

    • April 26, 2017 at 12:51 am
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      I liked the Teaser, but I agree with you. Rian Johnson is a good director and screenwriter and Mark Hamill is a fairly good actor. So I am ready for some real memorable lines, actually. And Carrie Fisher worked on this screenplay and she’s really good at that. So I can imagine she’s going to do a lot during this movie.

  • April 22, 2017 at 12:40 am
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    Kennedy and co. already screwed the pooch on this one considering it’s pretty unlikely we’ll ever see her reunite with Luke before he dies what with his self-centered exile not to mention the fact that we will never ever see her fully explore her Jedi abilities.

  • April 22, 2017 at 5:20 am
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    I am a huge Carrie Fisher fan. Her death was devastating. I’m still grieving over your passing till this day.

    But, as much as I don’t want anyone else to play the character of Leia, recasting is the only way to go if she survives TLJ. I think her character arc is important to the character arc of her son. A mother’s love and bond with her child is strong. If KK and LF wants to uplift women even more in SW then they’re not going to kill Leia off.

    I believe if Carrie Fisher was still alive, and for some reason she could not act anymore, she would want the character of Leia to continue on. Leia is the only character in SW that was and is a mother, sister, wife, senator, rebel leader, princess, and general and has the fore too. They can’t just kill her off.

    Rest in Peace Carrie Fisher, I love you…we all love you!

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