Star Wars: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Empire Strikes Back

16. Harrison Ford & Carrie Fisher Were Drunk During The Cloud City Introduction

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In the movie's DVD commentary and also in various interviews, Carrie Fisher has mentioned that there's a very special reason why Han and Leia look so excessively peppy when meeting up with Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) on Cloud City - they were still drunk from partying the night before. Fisher said:

"I was renting Eric Idle's house for five months, and he was doing Monty Python down in Tunisia, and they had a drink that they would give to the extras to make them more 'compliant.' And they called it 'The Tunisian Death Drink.' We had an early call, and Eric called down and said, 'The Rolling Stones are here!' and I came down and it was all of them.
I called Harrison and said, 'Get over here! This is ridiculous!' I wonder how he remembers it. I remember that we never went to sleep, so we weren’t hungover - we were still drunk when we arrived in Cloud City the next day. We don't really smile a lot in the movie, but there we're smiling."

Imagine looking that good when you've been up all night and still have Tunisian Death Drink coursing through your veins.

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