Carrie Fisher receives posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May the Fourth

May the fourth be with you, Carrie Fisher. The “Star Wars” actress, who died in 2016, acquired a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 4. Radio character Ellen Ok will introduced the honour, and Fisher’s daughter, actress Billie Lourd, accepted the star.

May 4 is a major date to “Star Wars” followers, whose adoption of “May the fourth” performs on the flicks’ catchphrase “May the power be with you.” Fisher, who performed Princess Leia within the franchise, additionally held roles in motion pictures similar to “Shampoo” and “When Harry Met Sally…”.

Fisher’s “Star Wars” co-star, Mark Hamill, delivered remarks during the ceremony, calling Fisher, who was 19 once they shot the primary movie, “clever past her years” and “brutally frank.” 

He additionally learn one thing he wrote when Fisher died. 

“Carrie was one in every of a form, who belonged to us all, whether or not we favored it or not. She was our princess, damnit. And the actress who performed her blurred into one beautiful, fiercely impartial and ferociously humorous, take-charge lady, who took our collective breath away,” he mentioned. “Determined and hard, however with a vulnerability that made you root for her and need her to succeed and be pleased.”

Hamill mentioned Fisher performed a vital function in his private {and professional} life, including “the whole lot would’ve been a lot drabber and fewer fascinating if she hadn’t been the pal she was.”

Two different “Star Wars” icons have been current on the ceremony: C-3PO and R2-D2. 

Lourd additionally spoke earlier than accepting the star on her mom’s behalf, saying she did not see “Star Wars” till she was in center college – joking that she solely watched it as a result of boys in her class favored Princess Leia.  

“That day, staring on the display screen, I decided nobody can be as sizzling or as cool as Princess Leia,” Lourd mentioned. 

“My mother was glitter,” mentioned Lourd, donning glittery eye make-up. “She coated her world in it each actually and metaphorically. She left a mark of her sparkle on everybody she met.”

Hamill and one other “Star Wars” co-star, Harrison Ford, every has their very own stars, and Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, mentioned Fisher’s star might be “only a few toes away” from Hamill’s. Last month, Hamill posted about the news of Fisher’s star, saying it was “lengthy overdue and so well-deserved.”

Fisher’s star would be the 2,754th on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which honors leisure trade icons with golden star plaques on the sidewalk. The group shared an image of its “star maker” placing collectively Fisher’s star on May 1.

Fisher died at age 60 after turning into ailing on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, who died simply at some point after her daughter. Debbie’s son, Todd Fisher, mentioned Carrie’s dying “was an excessive amount of” for his mom.

Martinez mentioned Fisher’s star might be throughout the road from her mom’s.

Billie Lourd, Fisher’s daughter with ex-husband, Bryan Lourd, usually posts tributes to her mom and grandmother on social media. On the sixth anniversary of her mom’s dying, Lourd mentioned she wished her mom might meet her kids. 

“My mother just isn’t right here to satisfy both of them and is not right here to expertise any of the magic. Sometimes the magical moments can be the toughest. That’s the factor about grief,” she wrote, including she would inform her kids tales about Fisher.