10 Ways Star Wars Actors FIXED Scenes They Hated
8. Carrie Fisher Spoke Her Least Favourite Line Of Dialogue In An English Accent - A New Hope
Sometimes actors resort to desperate measures in an attempt to "fix" a scene they can't stand, and that was most certainly the case with Carrie Fisher when she filmed A New Hope's iconic holographic recording of Princess Leia.
In a panel discussion shortly before her death, Fisher confirmed that she absolutely loathed one particular line from this sequence, when Leia says:
"I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit."
Fisher's frustration with the clunky, unnatural-sounding dialogue prompted her to perform it in an English accent, because she felt that it wouldn't sound right coming from an American tongue.
Now, did Fisher really fix the dialogue? Given that fans routinely point out how jarring Leia's English accent is in the film's establishing scenes, probably not, but she at least tried to do something to make it fit better, even if it ultimately didn't work.
Hilariously, Fisher also admitted that this single scene is what prompted her to embark on a second career as a Hollywood script doctor after the end of original trilogy, working for many years polishing scripts for some of the biggest movies of the 1990s.