6 Star Wars Myths Started By The Actors

Of the many, many great anecdotes about shooting Star Wars: A New Hope, Carrie Fisher perhaps holds claim to the most hilarious, when discussing why George Lucas wouldn't allow her to wear a bra while shooting the original movie.

In her stand-up show Wishful Drinking, which was also adapted into a 2008 book, Fisher said:

"George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, 'You can't wear a bra under that dress.' So, I say, 'Okay, I'll bite. Why?' And he says, 'Because...there's no underwear in space.'

What happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands? But your bra doesn't - so you get strangled by your own bra."

It certainly makes for a fun gag, though fans have debated the veracity of this claim ever since, given that it suggests none of the women in the Star Wars movies wear bras.

On one hand, it sounds exactly like something a star filmmaker working in the 1970s would say to a young leading lady, but on the other, it's totally contradicted by the fact that Leia isn't strangled to death by her slave costume, which is basically just fancy underwear, in Return of the Jedi.

Nevertheless, this led to Fisher insisting that her obituary read that she was "drowned in moonlight, strangled by [her] own bra," and when she passed away in 2016, numerous outlets lovingly obliged her request.