Jodie Foster Confirms Princess Leia Offer; She Turned Down ‘Star Wars’ Because of a Disney Contract She ‘Didn’t Want to Pull Out Of’

by GroundbreakingSet187

6 comments

  1. I’m sure she would have been great but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than Carrie Fisher

  2. **When asked whether she was offered the role -**

    > I was, yeah. They were going for a younger Princess Leia but I had a conflict. I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie because I was already under contract.

  3. If the multiverse is a thing, there’s a universe where Burt Reynolds is Han Solo (who doesn’t get frozen in carbonite), Jodie Foster is Leia (but not Luke’s sister), Tom Selleck is Indiana Jones, and Harrison Ford is a carpenter.

  4. I remember in the Empire of Dreams documentary, Carrie said that she was told to lose weight and was afraid of being replaced with Jodie Foster if she didn’t lose it fast enough.

  6. It worked out for the best probably. Doubt we’d have got her silence of the lambs if she had done star wars!

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