Carrie Fisher Was ‘So Nervous’ to Star in ‘Austin Powers’: ‘She Didn’t Know If She Could Be Funny,’ Says Director Jay Roach

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1. >“One of my favorite days of shooting ‘Austin’ was when Carrie Fisher played the therapist,” Roach wrote in a piece for Vulture. “She was so nervous about it, and she didn’t know if she could be funny. She had recently become sober after a public struggle with addiction, an experience she mined in her novel and film, ‘Postcards from the Edge.’ The hope was that her being super functional as the therapist would play against what people knew about her at the time.”

2. “Star” in the movie? Lol it was a fucking 90 second cameo

3. Better to be uncertain and give it 100 per cent, than completely certain and phone it in.

4. This seems strange…considering she starred in multiple comedies at this point and the very writing this guy is talking about was known for its sharp humor(she was also one of Hollywood’s biggest script doctors)

5. Til, that was Carrie fisher

6. That would be Blues Brothers erasure.

7. It’s the highlight of the movie and one of the best cameos ever

   Who’s going to *take over the world* when I die?

8. Loved her, miss her. Hers was the first celebrity death that really hit me hard, in a way I was not expecting.

9. I have such a soft spot for Austin Powers. There’s such a surprisingly sweet underbelly  underneath the crass humor, which is the exact opposite of most media I grew up with. 

   Austin Powers was a movie all about deconstructing an outdated archetype of masculinity. And it very overtly made the choice that while Austin may have never heard of a concept like “HR” before, he was exclusively interested in consensual sex with sober women who were just as horny as him. At a time period when he absolutely could have just been a true sex pest with SA being used as punchlines and gotten away with it. And I still find the Dr. Evil stuff as funny as ever and feel like a lot of it could fit in with modern comedy perfectly 

   I don’t remember the sequels enough to comment on them, and I’m sure there’s something problematic about the first one I’ve forgotten. But I really genuinely love the first Austin Powers movie.

10. *The details of my life are inconsequential*

11. *The details of my life are inconsequential*

12. Did AI write this article? It’s written very oddly.

13. She was in The Burbs and Blues Brothers. She knew perfectly well she was funny.

14. Wonder why they didn’t make more Austin Powers movies..

15. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

16. She was funnier than most of the other people who have ever lived but she didn’t star in this flick

17. Bullshit. She was hilarious and knew it. It’s not like this was her first rodeo.

18. Her cameo in Sex and the City was hilarious

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