Star Wars: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Last Jedi
17. Carrie Fisher Helped Polish The Script
You may or may not know that the late, great Carrie Fisher spent many years in Hollywood working a side-gig as a script doctor.
That is, she helped polish the scripts for numerous huge movies, such as Hook, Sister Act, and The Wedding Singer, and even punched up the dialogue for the Star Wars prequels.
Though Fisher more-or-less retired from script doctor work after the prequels came out, she did end up helping Rian Johnson complete the script for The Last Jedi.
According to Johnson, he visited Fisher's house and they went over the entire script in fine detail, with Fisher making numerous suggestions, including re-writing much of Leia's own dialogue.
Script doctors typically go uncredited for their work and their contributions may only be revealed years or even decades later, yet due to Fisher's untimely passing before The Last Jedi's release, it was fitting for Johnson to make that information public during the press tour.