Rian Johnson shares Last Jedi pics with Carrie Fisher and Kelly Marie Tran
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has shared a couple of cute behind-the-scenes photos of stars Kelly Marie Tran and Carrie Fisher.
On Sunday, October 18, the filmmaker took to Instagram to share that he’d stumbled across a bunch of old notebooks, which he used to scribble thoughts in while filming the space-set sequel, while cleaning out his closet.
“Such a trip flipping through them,” he wrote alongside the snaps, before pointing out the “bonus” polaroids he found stuck inside one of the six journals.
One photo, which you can see by clicking through the Instagram gallery above, sees Tran, who played Rose Tico, beaming away as she leaned over a chair. The other shows Fisher, who had portrayed fan favourite Leia Organa since the franchise’s first film way back in 1977, doing a pouty face at the camera.
Back when The Last Jedi came out in 2017, Johnson paid his respects to Fisher, who’d died one year earlier, at its world premiere in Los Angeles, California.
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“I want to dedicate tonight to Carrie, who is up there right now flipping me the bird, saying ‘Damn it Rian, don’t you dare make this night a solemn tribute,'” Johnson said (via The Guardian).
“So let’s all have a blast tonight for Carrie.”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the entire Skywalker Saga are available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, as well as on Disney+, while Rise of Skywalker is also on Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.
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