Star Wars’ Carrie Fisher gets her Walk of Fame star on May the Fourth
- Daughter Billie Lourd accepted the honour on the behalf of the beloved actress, who rose to fame as Princess – and later General – Leia Organa
- Fisher’s name now joins those of co-stars Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill on the Hollywood tourist attraction
Carrie Fisher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, a May the Fourth tribute to a beloved Star Wars actress that had a touch of stardust.
The late star’s daughter, Billie Lourd, wearing her mother’s portrait printed on her metallic dress, accepted the star on behalf of Fisher. She threw glitter, her mother’s favourite, on the newly unveiled star.
“My mum used to say you weren’t actually famous until you became a Pez dispenser. Well, people eat candy out of her neck every day. I say you aren’t actually famous until you get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” she said.
“My mom is a double-whammy – a Pez dispenser and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame now. Mama, you’ve made it.”
Mark Hamill, who played Fisher’s space brother, Luke Skywalker, was also on hand, and recalled meeting the young actor when she was just 19.
“She played such a crucial role in my personal and professional life and both would have been far emptier without her. Was she a handful? Was she high-maintenance? No doubt! But everything would have been drabber and less interesting if she hadn’t been the friend that she was,” Hamill said.
