(Los Angeles) Actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the saga Star Warsreceived a posthumous star in Los Angeles on Thursday, in a ceremony clouded by a dispute within his family.
The actress, who died in 2016 following a heart attack, was honored on the famous Hollywood Boulevard “Walk of Fame” by her daughter Billie Lourd, on the occasion of May 4. A day that has established itself over the years in the United States as a “Star Wars Day” celebrated by fans of the franchise created by George Lucas.
If the daughter of the actress wore a dress bearing the image of Princess Leia, other members of the family were however conspicuous by their absence: the brother of Carrie Fisher, Todd, and his half-sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh, weren’t invited.
“To be omitted from this special day is really hurtful,” Todd Fisher told the TMZ gossip site.
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Carrie Fisher in 2011
The sisters denounced a “deeply shocking” omission on Instagram.
A decision perfectly assumed by Billie Lourd. “We don’t have a relationship,” Carrie Fisher’s daughter told the HollywoodReporteraccusing the actress’s siblings of profiting from her mother’s death by releasing books and giving “multiple interviews” to the American press.
“The truth about my mother’s very complicated relationship with her family is known only to me and those who were actually close to her,” she added.
The campaign to give Carrie Fisher a star had been going on for years: fans complained that her male colleagues Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in the saga) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) had long since won their award on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Mark Hamill actor
The actress “was our princess, damn it,” Mr Hamill gushed at the ceremony on Thursday, paying tribute to his “beloved space twin” alongside robots R2-D2 and C3PO, popularized by the intergalactic soap opera.
Carrie Fisher, whose first screen role came as a teenager in satire shampoo by Hal Ashby in 1975, played Leia in six films, starting with Star Wars: Episode IV (1977).
She appeared posthumously in Star Wars: Episode IX (2019).
The actress joins more than 2,000 big names in film, television and music who have stars encrusted on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard and surrounding streets.